Venomous snakebites in an urban area: What are the possibilities?

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 168-171

  Jasper, Edward H ^a   Miller, Mark ^a,b   Neuburger, Kenneth J ^a   Widder, Patricia C ^c   Snyder, Jack W ^a   Lopez, Bernard L ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Philadelphia Herpetological Society   (United States)

^c Philadelphia Poison Control Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Envenomation; Snakebites; Snakes; Venomous

Indexed keywords

VENOM ANTISERUM;

ARTICLE; ENVENOMATION; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SNAKEBITE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0033788235     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(2000)011[0168:VSIAUA]2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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4. 1998 Annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers Toxic Exposure Surveillance System
5. Non-North American venomous reptile bites
6. Bites by non-native venomous snakes in the United States