Two Sri Lankan cases of identified sea snake bites, without envenoming

Toxicon

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 861-863

  Senanayake, Manouri P ^a   Ariaratnam, C Ariaranee ^a   Abeywickrema, Sudath ^b   Belligaswatte, Ashanka ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^b Lady Ridgeway Hospital   (Sri Lanka)

^c National Hospital Sri Lanka   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Enhydrina schistosa; Envenoming; Pelamis platurus; Sea snake bite; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

SNAKE VENOM;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ENVENOMATION; ESTUARY; FEMALE; FISHING; HUMAN; INDIAN OCEAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SCHOOL CHILD; SEA; SEASHORE; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE; SRI LANKA;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CHILD; HUMANS; HYDROPHIDAE; INDIAN OCEAN; MALE; SNAKE BITES; SNAKE VENOMS; SRI LANKA;

ENHYDRINA SCHISTOSA; HYDROPHIINAE; PELAMIS PLATURUS; SERPENTES;

EID: 19344372906     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2005.02.010     Document Type: Article

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