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FOLLOWING warm autumn rains after summers of above-average temperatures, rapidly growing pastures in some districts of New Zealand are capable of producing an hepatotoxin causing serious losses in sheep and cattle. A minority of the affected animals exhibit the clinical symptoms described as ‘facial eczema’1.
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PERCIVAL, J., THORNTON, R. Relationship between the Presence of Fungal Spores and a Test for Hepatotoxic Grass. Nature 182, 1095–1096 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1821095a0
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