Case Series and Case Reports: Snake bites in Moyen Chari district, Chad: A five-year experience

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 123-126

  Bregani, Enrico Rino ^a,b   Maraffi, Tommaso ^a   Van Tien, Tu ^c  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^b Hopital de Goundi   (Chad)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VENOM ANTISERUM;

ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING TIME; ENVENOMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LENGTH OF STAY; LETHALITY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SNAKEBITE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; CHAD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEASONS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SNAKE BITES; SNAKE VENOMS; VIPERIDAE; WHOLE BLOOD COAGULATION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ECHIS OCELLATUS;

EID: 79953185366     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/td.2010.100224     Document Type: Article

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