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Nanoparticulate transport of oximes over an in vitro blood-brain barrier model [PDF]

, 2010
Background: Due to the use of organophosphates (OP) as pesticides and the availability of OP-type nerve agents, an effective medical treatment for OP poisonings is still a challenging problem.
Tikva Vogel, Kreuter, Jörg (Prof. Dr.), Sascha Wien, Zensi, Anja, Kufleitner, Jürgen, Jörg Kreuter, Wien, Sascha, Jürgen Kufleitner, Bungert, Judith, Wagner, Sylvia, Judith Bungert, Dadparvar, Miriam, Vogel, Tikva, Anja Zensi, Sylvia Wagner, Worek, Franz, Miriam Dadparvar, Hagen von Briesen, Briesen, Hagen von, Franz Worek   +19 more
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Estimating the government health-care costs of treating pesticide poisoned and pesticide self-poisoned patients in Sri Lanka

Global Health Action, 2019
Background: Pesticide self-poisoning as a method of suicide is a major global health problem. Objectives: To estimate the cost and per patient cost of treating pesticide self-poisoning at different hospital levels in a Sri Lankan district, and to examine
Hannah Ahrensberg, Lizell B. Madsen, Melissa Pearson, Manjula Weerasinghe, Michael Eddleston, Shaluka Jayamanne, Kristian S. Hansen, Vindya Ariyarathna, Sandamali Rajapaksha, Flemming Konradsen   +9 more
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Patterns of acute poisoning with pesticides in the paediatric age group

International Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2017
Background Pesticides are identified as one of the dangerous poisons globally in children and are associated with increased short- and long-term morbidity.
Kavinda Chandimal Dayasiri, Shaluka F. Jayamanne, Chamilka Y. Jayasinghe   +2 more
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All-cause mortality after non-fatal self-poisoning : a cohort study [PDF]

, 2010
Background: Suicide has been repeatedly shown to have greatly increased incidence after non-fatal self-harm but far less is known about early death from other causes.
Eleni Karasouli, Karasouli, Eleni, David Owens, Dennis, Michael S., Abbott, Rachel, Dennis, Michael, Keith M. Hurst, Hurst, Keith M., Rachel L. Abbott, Michael Dennis, Owens, David, Hurst, Keith, Abbott, Rachel L.   +12 more
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Toxicoepidemiology of poisoning exhibited in Indian population from 2010 to 2020: a systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ Open, 2021
Objective To determine the prevalence of pesticide, corrosive, drugs, venom and miscellaneous poisoning in India.Setting Systematic literature search was done in PubMed Central, Cochrane and Google Scholar databases for studies that satisfied the ...
Praveen Kumar-M, Shoban Babu Varthya, Surjit Singh, Chaitanya Mittal   +3 more
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Analysis of Recent Situation of Pesticide Poisoning in Bangladesh: Is There a Proper Estimate? [PDF]

Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology, 2014
Background: Pesticide poisoning is a common method of suicide attempt and less commonly accidental poisoning in Bangladesh. This review for the first time estimated the extent and characteristics of pesticide poisoning in Bangladesh and explored existing
Gourab Dewan
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Suicide by pesticide poisoning in India: a review of pesticide regulations and their impact on suicide trends

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Pesticide self-poisoning is a common means of suicide in India. Banning highly hazardous pesticides from agricultural use has been successful in reducing total suicide numbers in several South Asian countries without affecting agricultural ...
Toby Bonvoisin, Leah Utyasheva, D. Knipe, D. Gunnell, M. Eddleston   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Suicides by pesticide ingestion in Pakistan and the impact of pesticide regulation

BMC Public Health, 2023
Introduction Suicide is a major public health problem in Pakistan, accounting to approximately 19,331 deaths every year. Many are due to consumption of acutely toxic pesticides; however, there is a lack of national suicide data, limiting knowledge and ...
Shweta Dabholkar, Shahina Pirani, Mark Davis, Murad Khan, Michael Eddleston   +4 more
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Notification of Pesticide Poisoning: Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Doctors in the Rural Western Cape

South African Family Practice, 1999
Objective: To evaluate the impact of a surveillance intervention on tile knowledge attitudes and practices of rural doctors in the Western Cape. Study Design: Intervention study.
L. London, R. Bailie
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Epidemiological characteristics of pesticide poisoning in Jiangsu Province, China, from 2007 to 2016

Scientific Reports, 2019
To investigate the characteristics of pesticide poisoning in Jiangsu province and provide a scientific basis for measures for the prevention of pesticide poisoning.
Ning Wang, Qing-Tao Jiang, Lei Han, Heng-Dong Zhang, Baoli Zhu, Xin Liu   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source