Snakebite mortality in costa rica

Toxicon

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1639-1643

  Rojas, Gustavo ^a   Bogarín, Guisella ^a   Gutiérrez, José María ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COSTA RICA; ENVENOMATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SNAKEBITE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BOTHROPS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COSTA RICA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SNAKE BITES;

BOTHROPS ASPER; SERPENTES;

EID: 0030784913     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(97)00046-9     Document Type: Article

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