Snakes and Snakebite Envenoming in Northern Tanzania: A Neglected Tropical Health Problem. [PDF]
, 2015 Snakebites cause considerable human and livestock injuries as well as deaths worldwide, and particularly have a high impact in sub-Saharan Africa. Generating a basic platform of information on the characteristics of snakes and snakebites in various ...
Kimaro, W H, Kipanyula, M J
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Priority Actions and Progress to Substantially and Sustainably Reduce the Mortality, Morbidity and Socioeconomic Burden of Tropical Snakebite [PDF]
, 2016 The deliberations and conclusions of a Hinxton Retreat convened in September 2015, entitled “Mechanisms to reverse the public health neglect of snakebite victims” are reported.
Gutiérrez, José María +1 more
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Degradomics for large‐scale mechanistic insights on proteases and proteolysis in human health
The FEBS Journal, EarlyView.Proteolysis has an important role in human disease but remains relatively unexplored. Degradomics, the uncovering of proteolysis in tissues, cells, and proteins, uses mass spectrometry‐based terminomics to identify protein termini occurring therein (forward degradomics) and to define the actions of proteases (reverse degradomics).
Daniel R. Martin +2 more
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Validity and reliability of telephone administration of the patient-specific functional scale for the assessment of recovery from snakebite envenomation [PDF]
, 2019 OBJECTIVES: Although more than 1.8 million people survive snakebite envenomation each year, their recovery is understudied. Obtaining long-term follow-up is challenging in both high- and low-resource settings. The Patient-Specific Functional Scale (PSFS)
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Challenges in diagnosing and treating snakebites in a rural population of Tamil Nadu, India: the views of clinicians [PDF]
, 2017 Snakebites cause death, disability and economic devastation to their victims, people who live almost exclusively in rural areas. Annually an estimated two million venomous bites cause as many as 100,000 deaths worldwide as well as hundreds of thousands ...
Bicknell, Andrew B. +6 more
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Tropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To analyse mortality, hospitalisations and in‐hospital mortality related to paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) in Brazil, 2000–2024, from a spatio‐temporal and social inequalities perspective. Methods We conducted a mixed ecological study using death certificates from the Mortality Information System and hospital admissions from the ...
Anderson Fuentes Ferreira +9 more
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Presentation, management, and outcome of snake-bite in two district hospitals in Ghana [PDF]
, 2014 Introduction: the burden of disease represented by snakebites is widely underestimated and often neglected public health problem in the tropics. There is insufficient epidemiological data to guide distribution of antivenin and proper management of ...
Adjei, George +9 more
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Digital Disease Ecologies: Encounter, Datafication and the Digital Geographies of One Health
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract Through the case of Snake Awareness Rescue Protection App (SARPA), a digital snake translocation and snakebite prevention mobile phone application in Kerala, India, this paper extends recent geographical ‘digital ecologies’ scholarship's concern for the digitisation of more‐than‐human worlds to digital health technology and disease ...
George Kirkham
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Ximenia americana L. From Popular Use to Anti‐Inflammatory Activities: A Comprehensive Review
Food Frontiers, Volume 7, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT Ximenia americana (L.), known as “yellow plum,” “sea lemon,” or “Brazilian plum,” is a tropical/subtropical plant widely used in traditional medicine. Its roots, leaves, flowers, stem, and fruits are traditionally employed to treat various inflammatory disorders.
Bruno Anderson F. Silva +9 more
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Repositioning Global Health: Decolonising Narratives and Practice in the African Context
Public Health Challenges, Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT Background Global health practice in Africa remains shaped by enduring colonial legacies that privilege external expertise and undervalue indigenous knowledge systems. Despite widespread recognition of inequities in authorship, funding and representation, global health discourse often overlooks the deeper epistemic and cultural dimensions of ...
Michael Sarfo, Ruth Owusuaa
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