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Snake Envenomation in North-West Iran: A Three-Year Clinical Study [PDF]

International Journal of Medical Toxicology and Forensic Medicine, 2019
Background: Snakebite is a medical emergency and must receive high-priority assessment and treatment, even in patients who initially appear well. A few reports have been published regarding snakebite in Iran.
Rahim Nejadrahim, Mehrdad Sahranavard, Anita Aminizadeh, Mohammad Delirrad   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Acidente botrópico em paciente pediátrico: relato de caso

Residência Pediátrica, 2023
Botropic accidents are the most common among snake accidents in Brazil. The species Bothrops jararaca, the popular jararaca, predominantly inhabits the south and southeast regions, and thus is the most relevant venomous snake in the region, being ...
Karoline Silva Zeni, Aline Campani Rodrigues, Camila Cé de Souza, Diego Gonçalves Mastella, Guilherme Michelon, Rafaela Dahlke, Leticia Fortkamp de Almeida, Fabiana Stradiotto Sartor   +7 more
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Does the traditional snakebite severity score correctly classify envenomated patients? [PDF]

Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine, 2016
Objective This study aims to help set domestic guidelines for administration of antivenom to envenomated patients after snakebites. Methods This retrospective observational case series comprised 128 patients with snake envenomation.
Seungho Kang, Jeongmi Moon, Byeongjo Chun   +2 more
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The protective effects and ameliorative potency of the haemolymph from the Saudi scorpion Androctonus crassicauda against the oxidative stress induced by its crude venom: A pharmacological study [PDF]

Journal of Bioscience and Applied Research, 2018
Background: Envenomation from dangerous scorpions remains a horrible threat in many parts of the globe, especially the developed countries, reflecting a reliable cause of a lot of mortalities and morbidities for both children and adolescents; as the ...
Nagwa Azzam
doaj   +1 more source

Novel Treatment Strategy for Patients with Venom-Induced Consumptive Coagulopathy from a Pit Viper Bite

Toxins, 2020
Pit viper venom commonly causes venom-induced consumptive coagulopathy (VICC), which can be complicated by life-threatening hemorrhage. VICC has a complex pathophysiology affecting multiple steps of the coagulation pathway.
Eun Jung Park, Sangchun Choi, Hyuk-Hoon Kim, Yoon Seok Jung   +3 more
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Interspecies Variations in Clinical Envenoming Effects of Viper Snakes Evolutionized in a Common Habitat: A Comparative Study on Echis carinatus sochureki and Macrovipera lebetina obtusa Victims in Iran [PDF]

Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology, 2019
Background: Despite sharing common evolutionary features, Viperidae species including Echis carinatus and Macrovipera lebetina possess venoms with different proportions of toxic agents, thereby causing clinical effects with potentially variable severity.
Seyed Mostafa Monzavi, Reza Afshari, Ali Reza Khoshdel, Amir Ahmad Salarian, Hamid Khosrojerdi, Azam Mihandoust   +5 more
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Antivenom supply and demand: An analysis of antivenom availability and utilization in South Africa

African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2023
Introduction: Snakebites are a neglected tropical disease. In many areas, envenoming incidence and antivenom administration rates are unknown. This study compared antivenom (AV) availability to rates of envenoming and recommendations to treat (RTT) in ...
Natalie R Neumann, Arina du Plessis, Daniël J van Hoving, Christopher O Hoyte, Anné Lermer, Stephen Wittels, Carine Marks   +6 more
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The research landscape of direct, sensory human–nature interactions

People and Nature, Volume 5, Issue 6, Page 1893-1907, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Gaining a comprehensive understanding of the human–nature interactions research landscape can benefit researchers by providing insights into the most relevant topics, popular research areas and the distribution of topics across different disciplines, journals and regions.
Maldwyn J. Evans, Kevin J. Gaston, Daniel T. C. Cox, Masashi Soga   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Immunomic Investigation of Holocyclotoxins to Produce the First Protective Anti-Venom Vaccine Against the Australian Paralysis Tick, Ixodes holocyclus

Frontiers in Immunology, 2021
Venom producing animals are ubiquitously disseminated among vertebrates and invertebrates such as fish, snakes, scorpions, spiders, and ticks. Of the ~890 tick species worldwide, 27 have been confirmed to cause paralysis in mammalian hosts.
Manuel Rodriguez-Valle, Sonia McAlister, Paula M. Moolhuijzen, Mitchell Booth, Kim Agnew, Claudia Ellenberger, Aleta G. Knowles, Kathleen Vanhoff, Matthew I. Bellgard, Ala E. Tabor, Ala E. Tabor   +10 more
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Health evaluation and dangerous reptile detection using a novel framework powered by the YOLO algorithm to design high‐content cellular imaging systems

The Journal of Engineering, Volume 2023, Issue 12, December 2023., 2023
To propose a framework that utilizes the real‐time object detection capabilities of the You Only Look Once (YOLO) algorithm to enable rapid and efficient detection of health‐related cellular features or dangerous reptiles in cellular images, reducing the processing time compared to traditional methods.
Saroj Kumar Pandey, Ankit Kumar, Dhirendra Prasad Yadav, Anurag Sinha, Md. Mehedi Hassan, N. K. Singh, Yash Bhatnagar, Namit Garg   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source