United States coral snakes

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 38-45

  Davidson, Terence M ^a   Eisner, Jessica ^b  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNAKE VENOM;

NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029919786     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(1996)007[0038:USCS]2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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