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Long-term Effects of Snake Envenoming
Toxins, 2019 Long-term effects of envenoming compromise the quality of life of the survivors of snakebite. We searched MEDLINE (from 1946) and EMBASE (from 1947) until October 2018 for clinical literature on the long-term effects of snake envenoming using different ...
Sisira Siribaddana +2 more
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Snakebite Envenoming Diagnosis and Diagnostics
Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 Snakebite envenoming is predominantly an occupational disease of the rural tropics, causing death or permanent disability to hundreds of thousands of victims annually.
Andreas Hougaard Laustsen +2 more
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Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2017 Snakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease that kills >100,000 people and maims >400,000 people every year. Impoverished populations living in the rural tropics are particularly vulnerable; snakebite envenoming perpetuates the cycle of poverty. Snake venoms are complex mixtures of proteins that exert a wide range of toxic actions.
Gutiérrez, J +5 more
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Clinical complications in envenoming by Apis honeybee stings: insights into mechanisms, diagnosis, and pharmacological interventions [PDF]
Frontiers in ImmunologyEnvenoming resulting from Apis honeybee stings pose a neglected public health concern, with clinical complications ranging from mild local reactions to severe systemic manifestations.
Rs Ferreira Jr +2 more
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Bothrops bilineatus: An Arboreal Pitviper in the Amazon and Atlantic Forest
Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 The two-striped forest-pitviper (Bothrops bilineatus) is an arboreal snake that is currently represented by two subspecies (B. b. bilineatus and B. b. smaragdinus) that comprise a species complex, and its distribution is in the Amazon and the Atlantic ...
Paulo Sérgio Bernarde +18 more
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Toxins, 2023 Envenomation caused by venomous animals may trigger significant local complications such as pain, edema, localized hemorrhage, and tissue necrosis, in addition to complications such as dermonecrosis, myonecrosis, and even amputations.
Érica S. Carvalho +14 more
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Lonomia obliqua Envenoming and Innovative Research
Toxins, 2021 As a tribute to Butantan Institute in its 120th anniversary, this review describes some of the scientific research efforts carried out in the study of Lonomia envenoming in Brazil, a country where accidents with caterpillars reach over 42,000 individuals
Miryam Paola Alvarez-Flores +9 more
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Toxins, 2021 Bites by many Asiatic and African cobras (Genus: Naja) cause severe local dermonecrosis and myonecrosis, resulting in permanent disabilities. We studied the time scale in which two Indian polyvalent antivenoms, VINS and Bharat, remain capable of ...
Umesha Madhushani +4 more
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Animals, 2021 Several cases of Heterodon nasicus bites producing various symptoms have already been described. In this paper, a survey was conducted among Polish breeders of this species, where 47.7% of the respondents admitted that their snakes had tried to bite them,
Damian Zieliński
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Sri Lanka Journal of Medicine, 2020 Green pit viper (Trimeresurus trigonocephalus) is considered a potentially highly venomous arboreal endemic pit viper which inhabits Sri Lanka. Green pit viper bites usually result in local envenoming and systemic envenoming features like coagulopathy ...
K. V. D. Ranga Chamara +2 more
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