Nicola Bates has worked in human and veterinary toxicology for 25 years and has been with the Veterinary Poisons Information Service (VPIS) since it started. As well as providing emergency advice via the telephone she has written extensively on veterinary toxicology. In addition to service provision, she is involved in training of VPIS staff and veterinary professionals. She is currently the co...

introduction: due to dissimilarities in the availability of poisons in different areas and lack of enough control over the purchase and sale of some dangerous rodenticides, it is prudent to establish the distribution of rodenticide poisoning in each region. therefore, this study was performed to evaluate the demographic factors, types of poisons, duration of hospitalization and mortality of pat...

Our experiments have shown definitely that guinea pigs, once injected with sublethal doses of bacterial proteotoxins (anaphylatoxins), acquire distinct tolerance to these poisons. The degree to which such resistance or tolerance is developed is never very high, in no case in our experiments exceeding the ability to withstand one and one half to twice the fatal dose of the poisons. During the th...