Venomous and Poisonous Animals

Manson's Tropical Diseases, Twenty-second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 557-599

  Warrell, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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