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Heritable Resistance to Warfarin in Rats

Nature volume 215, pages 877–878 (1967)Cite this article

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WARFARIN and other anticoagulants are used for the destruction of rats throughout the world and have been by far the most successful materials ever introduced for this purpose. Since 1960, however, apparently independent outbreaks of resistance to warfarin in Rattus norvegicus have been reported from Scotland1, Denmark2 and Wales3.

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  1. Infestation Control Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Hook Rise South, Tolworth, Surbiton, Surrey

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GREAVES, J., AYRES, P. Heritable Resistance to Warfarin in Rats. Nature 215, 877–878 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215877a0

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