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Bringing antivenoms to Sub-Saharan Africa
Roberto P Stock1, Achille Massougbodji, Alejandro Alagón
1Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (IBt/UNAM) Av. Universidad 2001, Cuernavaca, Morelos 62210, Mexico. rstock@ibt.unam.mx
Nature Biotechnology
|February 9, 2007
Abstract:
To reduce unacceptably high death rates from snakebite envenomation, sub-Saharan Africa must adopt not only a new generation of multivalent biotech antivenoms, but also an infrastructure to deliver them.
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