Clinico-epidemiological Profile of Snake Bites over 6-year Period from a Rural Secondary Care Centre of Northern India: A Descriptive Study

Estimated deaths due to snake bites are more than 46,000 annually in India. Ninety-seven percent bites occur in rural areas. Data on snake bites from Jharkhand rural area are sparse. This study describes 6 years profile of snake bite patients from January, 2007 to December, 2012 at Nav Jivan Hospita...

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Autores principales: Mitra, Shubhanker, Agarwal, Abhinav, Shubhankar, B. U., Masih, Sahil, Krothapalli, Viswajit, Lee, Brian Mark, Kuruvilla, Jeevan, Alex, Reginald
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4721181/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26862265
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-6580.172263
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author Mitra, Shubhanker
Agarwal, Abhinav
Shubhankar, B. U.
Masih, Sahil
Krothapalli, Viswajit
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Kuruvilla, Jeevan
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description Estimated deaths due to snake bites are more than 46,000 annually in India. Ninety-seven percent bites occur in rural areas. Data on snake bites from Jharkhand rural area are sparse. This study describes 6 years profile of snake bite patients from January, 2007 to December, 2012 at Nav Jivan Hospital in Palamu district, Jharkhand.
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spelling pubmed-47211812016-02-09 Clinico-epidemiological Profile of Snake Bites over 6-year Period from a Rural Secondary Care Centre of Northern India: A Descriptive Study Mitra, Shubhanker Agarwal, Abhinav Shubhankar, B. U. Masih, Sahil Krothapalli, Viswajit Lee, Brian Mark Kuruvilla, Jeevan Alex, Reginald Toxicol Int Original Article Estimated deaths due to snake bites are more than 46,000 annually in India. Ninety-seven percent bites occur in rural areas. Data on snake bites from Jharkhand rural area are sparse. This study describes 6 years profile of snake bite patients from January, 2007 to December, 2012 at Nav Jivan Hospital in Palamu district, Jharkhand. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4721181/ /pubmed/26862265 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-6580.172263 Text en Copyright: © Toxicology International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
spellingShingle Original Article
Mitra, Shubhanker
Agarwal, Abhinav
Shubhankar, B. U.
Masih, Sahil
Krothapalli, Viswajit
Lee, Brian Mark
Kuruvilla, Jeevan
Alex, Reginald
Clinico-epidemiological Profile of Snake Bites over 6-year Period from a Rural Secondary Care Centre of Northern India: A Descriptive Study
title Clinico-epidemiological Profile of Snake Bites over 6-year Period from a Rural Secondary Care Centre of Northern India: A Descriptive Study
title_full Clinico-epidemiological Profile of Snake Bites over 6-year Period from a Rural Secondary Care Centre of Northern India: A Descriptive Study
title_fullStr Clinico-epidemiological Profile of Snake Bites over 6-year Period from a Rural Secondary Care Centre of Northern India: A Descriptive Study
title_full_unstemmed Clinico-epidemiological Profile of Snake Bites over 6-year Period from a Rural Secondary Care Centre of Northern India: A Descriptive Study
title_short Clinico-epidemiological Profile of Snake Bites over 6-year Period from a Rural Secondary Care Centre of Northern India: A Descriptive Study
title_sort clinico-epidemiological profile of snake bites over 6-year period from a rural secondary care centre of northern india: a descriptive study
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4721181/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26862265
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-6580.172263
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