The Need for Full Integration of Snakebite Envenoming within a Global Strategy to Combat the Neglected Tropical Diseases: The Way Forward
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1 Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Facultad de Microbiologı́a, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, 2 Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 3 School of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 4 Australian Venom Research Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, 5 Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Herston, Queensland, Australia, 6 Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientı́ficas (CSIC), Valencia, Spain, 7 Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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