Dog bites in Australian children

• 1 Queensland Children’s Medical Research Institute, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD.
• 2 Queensland Trauma Registry, Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD.
• 3 Anton Breinl Centre, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD.

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