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. 2019 Nov 4;9(11):919. doi: 10.3390/ani9110919

Table 1.

Times to death from anticoagulant poisoning reported in studies where captive rodents voluntarily ate food (bait) containing an anticoagulant rodenticide.

Anticoagulant/Rodent Species Time to Observed Illness (days) Time to Death (days) Reference
Warfarin
Laboratory R. norvegicus mean 5.5 mean 6.0 [33]
Laboratory R. norvegicus - range 4.2–17 [34]
Laboratory R. norvegicus - mean 3.0 ± 0.45 [31]
Wild-caught R. norvegicus - mean 6.2–6.6 range 4.0–10.0 [35]
Wild-caught R. rattus - mean 7.1 range 3.0–13.0 [36]
Wild-caught R. rattus - mean (males) 7.9 range 4.0–13.0 mean (females) 7.0 range 2.0–13.0 [37]
Wild-caught R. rattus - means 7.0 and 7.5 [34]
Wild-caught R. rattus - mean 8.8 range 5.0–12.0 [35]
Wild-caught Mus musculus - range 3.0–30.0 [38]
Coumatetralyl
Laboratory R. norvegicus mean 1.2 mean 5.7 [33]
Laboratory R. norvegicus - mean 6.6 ± 0.5 [31]
Wild-caught R. rattus - mean 8.1 range 5.0–13.0 [36]
Difenacoum
Laboratory R. norvegicus mean 8.4 mean 11.0 [33]
Brodifacoum
Laboratory R. norvegicus mean 4.0 mean 13.3 [33]
Laboratory R. norvegicus mean 3.0 mean 7.2 range 5.6-8.5 [39]
Laboratory R. norvegicus - mean 4.3 ± 0.5 [31]
Wild-caught R. rattus - mean 6.9 ± 1.9 range 3.0–13.0 [40]
Wild-caught M. musculus - mean 9.9 range 6.0–18.0 [41]
Wild-caught M. musculus - mean 9.0 ± 0.6 range 3.0–21.0 [42]
Wild-caught M. musculus - range 4.0–19.0 [43]
Wild-caught M. musculus mean 5.5± 2.5 range 1.0–16.0 median 6.0 [44]
Wild-caught M. musculus mean 7.3 ± 3.9 range 1.0–18.0 [40]
Bromadiolone
Wild-caught R. norvegicus - range 4.0–6.2 [45]
Pindone
Laboratory R. norvegicus - mean 4.0 ± 0.5 [31]
Wild-caught R. rattus - mean 7.9 range 3.0–19.0 [36]
Wild-caught R. norvegicus - means 4.2 and 5.0 range 4.0–9.0 [35]
Wild-caught R. rattus - means 8.7 and 8.7 range 4.0–13.0 [35]
Wild-caught M. musculus - range 4.0–6.0 [46]
Diphacinone
Laboratory R. norvegicus - mean 2.9 ± 1.8 [31]
Chlorophacinone
Wild-caught R. rattus - mean 9.7 range 4.0–19.0 [36]