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Table of Content - Volume 13 Issue 1 - Janauary 2020


 

Profile of snake bite patients and their outcome: Our experience at a tertiary care hospital in Vadodara

 

Meenakshi Shah1, Archana Asher2*, Kedar Mehta3

 

{1 Associate Professor, Department of Medicine} {3Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine} GMERS Medical College and General Hospital, Gotri – Vadodara, Gujarat, INDIA.

2Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, GMERS Medical College and Hospital, Vadnagar, Gujarat, INDIA.

Email: archanaasher258@yahoo.co.in

 

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