Australian toxinology in a global context

Toxicon

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 718-725

  Warrell, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; SPIDER VENOM ANTISERUM; TOXIN; VENOM;

AUSTRALIA; CEPHALOPOD; EDITORIAL; ENVENOMATION; ETHNIC GROUP; EVOLUTION; FIRST AID; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE; SPIDER; TICK; TOXIN ANALYSIS; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; SNAKE BITES; TOXICOLOGY;

EID: 33750965088     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2006.07.012     Document Type: Editorial

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