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High lethality and minimal variation after acute self-poisoning with carbamate insecticides in Sri Lanka – implications for global suicide prevention
Background: Highly hazardous organophosphorus (OP) insecticides are responsible for most pesticide poisoning deaths. As they are removed from agricultural practice, they are often replaced by carbamate insecticides of perceived lower toxicity. However, relatively little is known about poisoning with...
Autores principales: | Lamb, Thomas, Selvarajah, Liza R., Mohamed, Fahim, Jayamanne, Shaluka, Gawarammana, Indika, Mostafa, Ahmed, Buckley, Nicholas A., Roberts, Michael S., Eddleston, Michael |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4950420/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27252029 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15563650.2016.1187735 |
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