Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Volume 96, Issue 1 , Pages 79-84 , January 2002

Profile of snakebite envenoming in western Maharashtra, India

Received 6 December 1999 ,Revised 16 July 2001 ,Accepted 20 July 2001.

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Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Volume 96, Issue 1 , Pages 79-84 , January 2002