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Where Is the Evidence for Treatments Used in Pesticide Poisoning? Is Clinical Toxicology Fiddling While the Developing World Burns?

Nicholas A. Buckley The South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration (SACTRC), Sri Lanka; Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Canberra Clinical School, ACT, Australia; Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, The Canberra Hospital, PO Box 11, Woden ACT, 2606, Australia

Lakshman Karalliedde The South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration (SACTRC), Sri Lanka; Medical Toxicology Unit, Guy's Kings and St Thomas' Hospitals, London, UK

Andrew Dawson The South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration (SACTRC), Sri Lanka; Department of Clinical Toxicology and Pharmacology, University of Newcastle, Australia

Nimal Senanayake The South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration (SACTRC), Sri Lanka; Department of Medicine, Peradeniya University, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Michael Eddleston The South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration (SACTRC), Sri Lanka; Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, UK

Pages 113-116 | Published online: 15 Mar 2004

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