Snakebite mortality in India: a nationally representative mortality survey.

• Hoofdauteurs: Bijayeeni Mohapatra (Auteur), David A Warrell (Auteur), Wilson Suraweera (Auteur), Prakash Bhatia (Auteur), Neeraj Dhingra (Auteur), Raju M Jotkar (Auteur), Peter S Rodriguez (Auteur), Kaushik Mishra (Auteur), Romulus Whitaker (Auteur), Prabhat Jha (Auteur), Million Death Study Collaborators (Auteur)
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• Gepubliceerd in: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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India has long been thought to have more snakebites than any other country. However, inadequate hospital-based reporting has resulted in estimates of total annual snakebite mortality ranging widely from about 1,300 to 50,000. We calculated direct estimates of snakebite mortality from a national mort...