Plant Poisonings and Mycotoxicoses of Livestock in Southern Africa

This book provides extensive information on the vast number of southern African livestock lost to plant poisoning. It provides access to knowledge accumulated over a 50 year period at the Veterinary Research Institute at Onderstepoort on poisonings of the liver, central nervous system, heart, gastrointestinal tract, urogenital system, respiratory system, and hemopoietic system. The text also gives readers many helpful distribution charts, as well as useful information on the toxicology, chemistry, symptomatology, and pathology of each condition. Formatted for ease-of-use, every chapter of this fully illustrated volume ends with a discussion of the various poisonings, complete with comparisons to infectious diseases affecting the same systems.Kellerman, T. S. is the author of 'Plant Poisonings and Mycotoxicoses of Livestock in Southern Africa' with ISBN 9780195704884 and ISBN 0195704886.