Poisoning of cats and dogs by the carbamate pesticides aldicarb and carbofuran.

Adriana de Siqueira, Fernanda Auciello Salvagni, Alberto Soiti Yoshida, Vagner Gonçalves-Junior, Atilio Sersun Calefi, André Rinaldi Fukushima, Helenice de Souza Spinosa, Paulo César Maiorka

Research in veterinary science 2015 Oct

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The intentional and accidental poisoning of animals and people is a threat to public health and safety worldwide. Necropsies and histopathological examinations of 26 cats and 10 dogs poisoned by the carbamates aldicarb and carbofuran, confirmed by thin layer chromatography (TLC) and high performance liquid chromatography with diode-array detector (HPLC-DAD) were analysed, with variable post mortem interval and conservation of the carcass. Biological matrices were collected for toxicological and histopathological analyses. High performance liquid chromatography with diode-array detector (HPLC-DAD) was utilized to detect aldicarb and its metabolites, aldicarb sulphoxide and aldicarb sulphone, and carbofuran. The variable post mortem interval and the method of conservation of the carcass may be harmful to toxicological, necroscopic and histopathological analyses, that should be performed in order to provide reliable evidences to investigate possible poisoning of animals, which is cruel crime, and are usually linked to domestic or social conflict. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Adriana de Siqueira, Fernanda Auciello Salvagni, Alberto Soiti Yoshida, Vagner Gonçalves-Junior, Atilio Sersun Calefi, André Rinaldi Fukushima, Helenice de Souza Spinosa, Paulo César Maiorka. Poisoning of cats and dogs by the carbamate pesticides aldicarb and carbofuran. Research in veterinary science. 2015 Oct;102:142-9