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Suspected pokeweed toxicity in a boer goat
Geoffrey W Smith1, Peter D Constable
1Department of Farm Animal Health and Resource Management, North Carolina State University, 4700 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC 27606, USA.
Veterinary and Human Toxicology
|December 3, 2002
Abstract:
A 5-y-old Boer goat buck was presented to a University veterinary hospital with a history of acute bloody diarrhea. Pokeweed toxicitywas diagnosed from history of plant ingestion and by ruling out other possible diagnoses. The goat responded to supportive therapy and was discharged after 4 d.