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Animal bites presenting to the emergency department: Spectrum, seasonal variation, and outcome
Journal of Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, 2021 Context: Animal bites including insect, reptile, and mammalian bites are common presentations to the emergency department (ED). Although profile and outcome of individual bites are described in detail, the literature on comprehensive overall clinical ...
Kundavaram Paul Prabhakar Abhilash +1 more
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A case report: a very rarely occurring snakebite [PDF]
, 2017 Snake bite is one of the most neglected public health issues in poor rural communities living in the tropics. The venomous bites and stings during pregnancy are very rare and it cause significant adverse effects on fetus and mother.
Madaria, Malhar +2 more
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Reappraisal of Vipera aspis venom neurotoxicity. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2007 BACKGROUND: The variation of venom composition with geography is an important aspect of intraspecific variability in the Vipera genus, although causes of this variability remain unclear.
Elisabeth Ferquel +7 more
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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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Bites by exotic snakes reported to the UK National Poisons Information Service 2009–2020
Clinical toxicology, 2022 Introduction: Snakebite is recognised as a neglected tropical disease and a cause of substantial morbidity and mortality. Whilst the most medically important snakes are typically native of Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania, the possibility of ...
Pardeep Jagpal +8 more
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Immunodiagnosis of Snake Bite [PDF]
BMJ, 1974 Management of a patient with snake bite is influenced by the nature of the offending snake. Species diagnosis based on the patient's history and physical signs is often unreliable and the possibility of making a species diagnosis by immunological means has therefore been investigated.
Greenwood, B +4 more
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Journal of Acute Disease, 2019 Objective: To evaluate the epidemiology, clinical profile and treatment for patients with snake bite in the intensive care unit of our hospital. Methods: A retrospective analysis of patients with snake bite admitted to the intensive care unit of a ...
Shivali Panwar, Aashish Dang
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Emergency medicine, 2018 Pit viper (rattlesnake, cottonmouth, and copperhead) snakebites among children and adolescents in the United States are relatively common with a substantial portion of these resulting in envenomation.
Mojave Rattlesnake, Mojave Rattlesnake
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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 ...
Robert A. Harrison +7 more
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Secondary analysis of snake bite data in the Western Region of Ghana: 2006- 2010 [PDF]
, 2016 Background: A snake bite is an injury caused by a bite from a snake, often resulting in puncture wounds, amputations and sometimes envenomation. Envenoming resulting from snake bite is a particularly important public health problem in rural areas of ...
Afari, Edwin +8 more
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