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Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, 2023 Background: India is a country known to the West as a country of snake charmers and snakes. Generation after generation, some families in our country continue to play and live with snakes (snake charmers), but we fail to protect the community from snake
Jagannath Pradhan +2 more
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The Global Snake Bite Initiative: an antidote for snake bite
The Lancet, 2010 Clinicians have for a long time witnessed the tragedy of injury, disability, and death from snake bite that is a daily occurrence in many parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. To many people living in these regions, including some of the world’s poorest communities, snake bite is an ever present occupational risk and environmental hazard, an ...
Williams, Mr +6 more
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The Lancet, 2010 Snake bite is a common and frequently devastating environmental and occupational disease, especially in rural areas of tropical developing countries. Its public health importance has been largely ignored by medical science. Snake venoms are rich in protein and peptide toxins that have specificity for a wide range of tissue receptors, making them ...
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Snakebite in bedroom kills a physician in Cameroon: a case report
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2016 The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies snake bites as neglected public health problem affecting mostly tropical and subtropical countries.
Armand Nkwescheu +8 more
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Hematotoxicity in Patients with Snake Bite
Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College, 2014 Background: To determine the frequency of haematoxicity in patients with snake bite. Methods: In this descriptive study patients (n=84) with history of snake bite were included.
Afsheen Ishfaq
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Clinico-Epidemiological Profile of Snake Bite Victims Admitted in a District Hospital in Northern Maharashtra, India [PDF]
Asia Pacific Journal of Medical ToxicologyBackground: Recognized by the World Health Organization as a neglected tropical disease in 2009, snake bites continue to contribute substantially to morbidity and mortality in tropical countries. Maharashtra, experiences high incidence of snake bites due
Anaya Kamalapurkar, Tanuja Manohar
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Epidemiological patterns and trends of paediatric snakebites in Sri Lanka
BMC Research NotesObjectives This study aimed to analyse the epidemiological patterns of paediatric snake bites in Sri Lanka over a 4-year period (2020–2024). Methods A multi-centre, retrospective observational study was conducted from June 2020 to June 2024 across nine ...
Kavinda Dayasiri +6 more
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Toxins, 2016 Venom detection is crucial for confirmation of envenomation and snake type in snake-bite patients. Enzyme immunoassay (EIA) is used to detect venom, but antivenom in samples prevents venom detection.
Kalana P. Maduwage +3 more
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The management of snakebites in South Africa
South African Family Practice, 2019 Snake bites are common in southern Africa especially in the rural and remote areas. Although all snake bites are not venomous, people bitten by venomous snakes require urgent medical attention and many will require antivenom.
I. Govender, J. Tumbo
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