Treatment of snakebite in Australia: the current evidence base and questions requiring collaborative multicentre prospective studies.

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Toxicon

• Publication date

  2006-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.TOXICON.2006.07.015PMID 16930660
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