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Snake bite in South Asia: a review [PDF]
, 2010 Snake bite is one of the most neglected public health issues in poor rural communities living in the tropics. Because of serious misreporting, the true worldwide burden of snake bite is not known.
Alirol, Emilie +19 more
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Accessibility of antivenom, per sector.
, 2021 Accessibility of antivenom, per sector.
Aukje K Mantel-Teeuwisse (8179767) +7 more
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, 2023 Upper bar chart, x axis: list of the various combinations of indications for administering antivenom; y axis: number of children that had each combination of antivenom indications.
Amek Nyaguara (153619) +10 more
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Experimental Bothrops atrox envenomation: Efficacy of antivenom therapy and the combination of Bothrops antivenom with dexamethasone. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2017 Bothrops atrox snakes are the leading cause of snake bites in Northern Brazil. The venom of this snake is not included in the antigen pool used to obtain the Bothrops antivenom. There are discrepancies in reports on the effectiveness of this antivenom to
Gabriella Neves Leal Santos Barreto +7 more
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Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of snake antivenom
Sri Lanka Journal of Medicine, 2018 Intact or fractionated immunoglobulins are used as snake antivenom to treat snake envenomation. Intravenously administered antivenom binds with snake toxins in the circulation and neutralizes the toxins.
Bhagya Nikapitiya, Kalana Maduwage
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Engineering Antivenom: Research Progress and Future Directions in Snakebite Envenoming Therapy. [PDF]
Ann N Y Acad SciSnakebite envenoming therapy is evolving from plasma‐derived antivenoms toward rationally engineered therapeutics. Advances in toxicovenomics, structural biology, antibody engineering, computational protein design, recombinant expression, small‐molecule inhibitors, and diagnostics are enabling toxin‐centric development of safer, more effective, and ...
Laustsen AH.
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Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2023 Snakebite is a global public health concern, which often occurs in tropical and subtropical underdeveloped areas, but it is often neglected. In the southern China, Naja naja atra (Chinese cobra) is a common venomous snake that causes swelling and ...
Jie Yang +10 more
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Rattlesnake Envenomations Treated Without Antivenom
, 2018 A Thesis submitted to The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine.The standard treatment for rattlesnake envenomation (RSE) is antivenom.
Chang, Phoebe
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Biomedicines, 2020 The Chinese Cobra (Naja atra) is an elapid snake of major medical importance in southern China. We describe the in vitro neurotoxic, myotoxic, and cytotoxic effects of N.
Qing Liang +4 more
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Consequences of neglect: analysis of the sub-Saharan African snake antivenom market and the global context. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2012 BACKGROUND: The worldwide neglect of immunotherapeutic products for the treatment of snakebite has resulted in a critical paucity of effective, safe and affordable therapy in many Third World countries, particularly in Africa.
Nicholas I Brown
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