Estimating the global burden of snakebite can help to improve management

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1538-1539

  Chippaux, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VENOM ANTISERUM;

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG COST; HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SURVEY; INCIDENCE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; SHORT SURVEY; SNAKEBITE; ANIMAL; HEALTH; HUMAN; NOTE; SNAKE;

ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; SNAKE BITES; SNAKES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 56749170431     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050221     Document Type: Short Survey

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