Long-term health effects perceived by snakebite patients in rural Sri Lanka: A cohort study

Subodha Waiddyanatha; Anjana Silva; Kosala Weerakoon; Sisira Siribaddana; Geoffrey K. Isbister

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0010723

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Long-term health effects perceived by snakebite patients in rural Sri Lanka: A cohort study

Subodha Waiddyanatha,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka, South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration (SACTRC), Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
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Anjana Silva,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka, South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration (SACTRC), Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Monash Venom Group, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Australia

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9968-3707

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Kosala Weerakoon,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka
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Sisira Siribaddana,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka
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Geoffrey K. Isbister

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: geoff.isbister@gmail.com

Affiliations South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration (SACTRC), Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Clinical Toxicology Research Group, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1519-7419

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Long-term health effects perceived by snakebite patients in rural Sri Lanka: A cohort study

Subodha Waiddyanatha,
Anjana Silva,
Kosala Weerakoon,
Sisira Siribaddana,
Geoffrey K. Isbister

Published: September 1, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010723

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