Snake bites in Kenya: A preliminary survey of four areas

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 319-321

  Coombs, Mary D ^a,b   Dunachie, Susanna J ^a   Brooker, Simon ^a   Haynes, Jon ^a   Church, Julia ^a   Warrell, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Oxford ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Incidence; Kenya; Snake bite

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KENYA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE; SPECIES; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

KAKAMEGA; SERPENTES;

EID: 0030974746     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(97)90091-2     Document Type: Article

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