Mortality due to snakebite envenomation in Costa Rica (1993-2006)

Toxicon

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 530-533

  Fernández, Pablo ^a   Gutiérrez, José María ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Costa Rica; Mortality; Snakebite; Snakes

Indexed keywords

SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; COSTA RICA; ENVENOMATION; FATALITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SNAKEBITE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COSTA RICA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SNAKE BITES; TIME FACTORS;

BOTHROPS ASPER; SERPENTES;

EID: 50549085774     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2008.06.018     Document Type: Article

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