A Call for Incorporating Social Research in the Global Struggle against Snakebite
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1 Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, 2 Graduate Institute of Biomedical Materials and Tissue Engineering, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, 3 Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 4 Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Valencia, Spain, 5 Australian Venom Research Unit, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, 6 Charles Campbell Toxinology Centre, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 7 Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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