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Severe Bushmaster Snakebite Envenoming: Case Report and Overview
Unlike the well-documented bothropic and crotalid snakebites in Brazil, lachetic envenomings (i.e., triggered by the bushmaster snake) are rare and present significant diagnostic challenges.
Garces-Filho, Allan Quadros +17 more
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Death to bite: a case report of dead snake envenoming and treatment
Frontiers in Tropical DiseasesBackgroundEnvenoming by venomous snakes may induce serious pathophysiological manifestations and death in victims if timely treatment is not provided. Such abilities of snakes remain intact even after death and decapitation.
Susmita Thakur +4 more
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The emerging syndrome of envenoming by the New Guinea small-eyed snake Micropechis ikaheka.
, 1996 The New Guinea small-eyed or ikaheka snake, Micropechis ikaheka, which occurs throughout New Guinea and some adjacent islands, is feared by the indigenes. The first proven human fatality was in the 1950s and this species has since been implicated in many
Richie, TL +12 more
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Snakebites in the Central American Region: More Government Attention Required
Tropical Medicine and Infectious DiseaseA review was conducted on snakebites in Central America. Information was extracted using the databases of PubMed, SciELO, and LILACS. Information included retrospective studies, case reports, and case series; in this way, valuable information was ...
Eduardo Alberto Fernandez +1 more
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Editorial: Venoms and Toxins: At the Crossroads of Basic, Applied and Clinical Immunology
Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 Manuela B. Pucca +6 more
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Progress and Challenges in the Field of Snakebite Envenoming Therapeutics [PDF]
Snakebite envenoming kills and maims hundreds of thousands of people every year, especially in the rural settings of tropical regions. Envenomings are still treated with animal-derived antivenoms, which have prevented many lives from being lost but which
Laustsen, Andreas H. +2 more
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Long-term effects of snake envenoming
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 ...
Anjana Silva (527728) +3 more
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, 2020 : Snakebites by the viper snake Cerastes cerastes are quite common across the world but rarely published with regard to their mostly benign course. The reported case study depicts the envenoming of a 36-year-old Czech man, a private herpetologist, who ...
: Jiří Valenta +4 more
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, 2018 Background Hump-nosed pit vipers (Genus: Hypnale) are medically important snakes in Sri Lanka and South India. Merrem’s Hump-nosed pit viper (Hypnale hypnale) frequently leads to potentially fatal envenomings in Sri Lanka and India.
Hemal Senanayake +5 more
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Paediatric snakebite envenoming: recognition and management of cases
Snakebite in children can often be severe or potentially fatal, owing to the lower volume of distribution relative to the amount of venom injected, and there is potential for long-term sequelae.
Le Geyt, Jacqueline +10 more
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