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The Global Burden of Snakebite: A Literature Analysis and Modelling Based on Regional Estimates of Envenoming and Deaths

BACKGROUND: Envenoming resulting from snakebites is an important public health problem in many tropical and subtropical countries. Few attempts have been made to quantify the burden, and recent estimates all suffer from the lack of an objective and reproducible methodology. In an attempt to provide...

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Autores principales: Kasturiratne, Anuradhani, Wickremasinghe, A. Rajitha, de Silva, Nilanthi, Gunawardena, N. Kithsiri, Pathmeswaran, Arunasalam, Premaratna, Ranjan, Savioli, Lorenzo, Lalloo, David G, de Silva, H. Janaka
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2577696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18986210
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050218