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Treatment response and clinical features of snakebite envenomation in Alborz province, Iran: A cross‐sectional study

Health Science Reports, Volume 7, Issue 10, October 2024.
Abstract Background Snakebite envenomation is a significant yet neglected public health burden. Our aim was to investigate the clinical and demographic factors of snakebite envenomation, as well as the factors associated with its severity and response to treatment, in Alborz province, northern Iran. Methods In this cross‐sectional study, we included 50
Hoorvash Farajidana, Seyedarad Mosalamiaghili, Kasra Assadian, Soodeh Jahangiri, Maryam Masumzadegan, Farangis Sadeghi, Lida shojaei Arani   +6 more
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Inhibition of Phospholipase A2 by Dihydrostilbene Glycoside Isolated from the Ethyl Acetate Fraction of Indigofera capitata: Structural Insights from IR and NMR

Sciences of Phytochemistry
Snakebites and subsequent envenomations remain a significant health challenge, especially in rural regions of underdeveloped countries, where they contribute to high mortality rates.
Maryam Mahmud Dauda, Garba Dauda, Sakynah Musa Abdullahi, Hadiza sada, Mohammed Ibrahim Sule, Halimatu Sadiya Hassan, Aliyu Muhammad Musa   +6 more
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Indian common krait envenomation presenting as coma and hypertension: A case report and literature review

Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, 2014
Neuroparalytic snake bite is a common emergency situation encountered in India. Common krait (Bungarus caeruleus) and cobra (Naja naja) are important snakes causing neuroparalysis in North India.
Arjun Datt Law, Anshu Kumar Agrawal, Ashish Bhalla   +2 more
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Wound Infections of Snakebites from the Venomous Protobothrops mucrosquamatus and Viridovipera stejnegeri in Taiwan: Bacteriology, Antibiotic Susceptibility, and Predicting the Need for Antibiotics—A BITE Study

Toxins, 2020
Snakebites from Taiwan habus (Protobothrops mucrosquamatus) and green bamboo vipers (Viridovipera stejnegeri) account for two-thirds of all venomous snakebites in Taiwan.
Chih-Chuan Lin, Yen-Chia Chen, Zhong Ning Leonard Goh, Chen-Ken Seak, Joanna Chen-Yeen Seak, Gao Shi-Ying, Chen-June Seak, SPOT Investigators   +7 more
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Crosscurrents of Contagion: Snakes, Rumours, Rivers, and Ebola in Sierra Leone's Borderlands

Antipode, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 847-871, May 2024.
Abstract When the Ebola virus crossed undetected into Sierra Leone and exacerbated the 2014–15 crisis, the World Health Organization blamed the breach on a traditional healer treating patients from Guinea. Meanwhile, local residents initially maintained that her death was not Ebola‐related but a serpent's curse, an assumption grounded in lived ...
Samuel Mark Anderson
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Seminatrix, S. pygaea [PDF]

, 1998
Number of Pages: 5Integrative BiologyGeological ...
Dorcas, Michael E., Dowling, Herndon G., Gibbons, J. Whitfield   +2 more
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The effects of hyperbaric oxygen therapy on snake‐bite‐associated wounds in dogs

Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 211-221, May/June 2024.
Abstract Objective To assess the effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) on Crotalinae envenomation‐induced wound swelling and severity and pain in dogs, and to describe the safety and complications of HBOT. Design Prospective, randomized, controlled, blinded study (2017–2021).
Shelly Olin, Julie Schildt, Michael Lane, Adesola Odunayo, Cary Springer, Dana Call, Selene Jones, Dennis Geiser, Daryl Millis, Marti Drum   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Antidote Stocking at Hospitals in North Palestine [PDF]

, 2007
Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the availability and adequacy of antidote stocking at hospitals in north Palestine based on published guidelines for antidote stocking.
Al-Jabi W, Samah, Sawalha F, Ansam, Sweileh M, Waleed, Zyoud H, Sa'ed   +3 more
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To Pee, or Not to Pee:A Review on Envenomation and Treatment in European Jellyfish Species [PDF]

, 2016
There is a growing cause for concern on envenoming European species because of jellyfish blooms, climate change and globalization displacing species. Treatment of envenomation involves the prevention of further nematocyst release and relieving local and ...
Berling, Boero, Hale, Jan Mees, Jan Seys, Kokelj, Li, Long, Loten, Louise Montgomery, Mariottini, Månsson, Pereira, Williamson   +13 more
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Flow‐based basophil activation test in immediate drug hypersensitivity. An EAACI task force position paper

Allergy, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 580-600, March 2024.
Abstract Diagnosing immediate drug hypersensitivity reactions (IDHRs) can pose a significant challenge and there is an urgent need for safe and reliable tests. Evidence has emerged that the basophil activation test (BAT), an in vitro assay that mirrors the in vivo response, can be a complementary test for many drugs.
C. Mayorga, G. E. Çelik, M. Pascal, H. J. Hoffmann, B. Eberlein, M. J. Torres, K. Brockow, L. H. Garvey, A. Barbaud, R. Madrigal‐Burgaleta, J. C. Caubet, D. G. Ebo   +11 more
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