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Venomous Snakebites

Medicina, 2011
More than 5 million people are bitten by venomous snakes annually and more than 100 000 of them die. In Europe, one person dies due to envenomation every 3 years. There is only one venomous snake species in Lithuania – the common adder (Vipera berus) – which belongs to the Viperidae family; however, there are some exotic poisonous snakes in the zoos ...
Dalia, Adukauskienė, Eglė, Varanauskienė, Agnė, Adukauskaitė   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Snakebite drug discovery: high-throughput screening to identify novel snake venom metalloproteinase toxin inhibitors

Frontiers in Pharmacology
Snakebite envenoming results in ∼100,000 deaths per year, with close to four times as many victims left with life-long sequelae. Current antivenom therapies have several limitations including high cost, variable cross-snake species efficacy and a ...
R. Clare, Charlotte A. Dawson, Adam P. Westhorpe, Laura-Oana Albulescu, Christopher M Woodley, Nada Mosallam, Daniel J. W. Chong, Jeroen Kool, Neil G Berry, Paul M O'Neill, N. Casewell   +10 more
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Snakebite victim profiles and treatment-seeking behaviors in two regions of Kenya: results from a health demographic surveillance system

Tropical Medicine and Health, 2022
Introduction Snakebites are a major cause of permanent injury and death among poor, rural populations in developing countries, including those in East Africa.
Peter S. Larson, M. Ndemwa, A. F. Thomas, Noriko Tamari, Paul Diela, M. Changoma, Abdullatif Mohamed, Miles C. Larson, K. Ketenci, Kensuke Goto, S. Kaneko   +10 more
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A mechanistic model of snakebite as a zoonosis: Envenoming incidence is driven by snake ecology, socioeconomics and its impacts on snakes

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022
Snakebite is the only WHO-listed, not infectious neglected tropical disease (NTD), although its eco-epidemiology is similar to that of zoonotic infections: envenoming occurs after a vertebrate host contacts a human. Accordingly, snakebite risk represents
Gerardo Martín, J. Erinjery, D. Ediriweera, H. J. de Silva, D. Lalloo, T. Iwamura, K. Murray   +6 more
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Echis carinatus Snakebite, a Rare Fatal Envenomation Incident in a Young Pakistani Boy: Case Report [PDF]

Clin Case Rep
ABSTRACT Prompt identification and aggressive intervention in Echis carinatus envenomation are paramount to avert life‐threatening complications such as venom‐induced consumptive coagulopathy (VICC), acute renal failure (ARF), and necrotizing fasciitis.
Siddiqui F, Siddiqui A, Maheshwari K, Mehmood K, Kumar J, Siddiqui N, Khan M, Javed S, Jlailati A.   +8 more
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Clinico-Epidemiological Profile, Trends, and Health-Related Outcomes of Snakebite Victims: A One-Year Prospective Study from Eastern India

Wilderness & environmental medicine (Print)
Introduction Snakebite envenomation is a significant life-threatening public health problem in Southeast Asia (SEA). In this region, India reported the largest number of snakebite deaths from 2000 to 2019 (1.2 million), with an average of 58,000 deaths ...
Shine Stephen, C. Mohanty, R. Radhakrishnan, Alwin Issac, Jaison Jacob, Nadiya Krishnan, Vijay Vr, S. Guru, Ijas Muhammed Shaji, Achala Aggarwal   +9 more
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Exploring the Utility of ssDNA Aptamers Directed against Snake Venom Toxins as New Therapeutics for Snakebite Envenoming

Toxins, 2022
Snakebite is a neglected tropical disease that causes considerable death and disability in the tropical world. Although snakebite can cause a variety of pathologies in victims, haemotoxic effects are particularly common and are typically characterised by
Nessrin Alomran, Raja Chinnappan, Jaffer Alsolaiss, N. Casewell, M. Zourob   +4 more
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Snakebite and its socio-economic impact on the rural population of Tamil Nadu, India [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Snakebite represents a significant health issue worldwide, affecting several million people each year with as many as 95,000 deaths. India is considered to be the country most affected, but much remains unknown about snakebite incidence in
A Kasturiratne, Anburaj Jeyaraj, B Mohapatra, D Williams, DA Warrell, DK Kochar, E Alirol, E. Gail Hutchinson, ID Simpson, J White, JB Harris, JK Joseph, JM Gutierrez, JM Gutierrez, Jonathan M. Gibbins, Joshua Yukich, JP Chippaux, Kameshwaran Nattamaisundar, Karthikeyan Ramasamy, LR Sharma, M. Fazil Baksh, Prabu Gajjeraman, R Rahman, Rajendran Vaiyapuri, Rajesh Ashokan, RS Blaylock, S Fox, Sakthivel Vaiyapuri, SK Sharma, SK Sutherland, Viswanathan Chandran   +30 more
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Snakebite-Associated Infections: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
. Snakebites still constitute a significant public health problem in developing countries and are considered a neglected tropical condition by the WHO.
D. Bonilla-Aldana, J. L. Bonilla-Aldana, Juan R. Ulloque-Badaracco, Ali Al-kassab-Córdova, Enrique A. Hernández-Bustamante, Esteban A. Alarcón-Braga, Abdelmonem Siddiq, Vicente A. Benites-Zapata, A. Rodriguez-Morales, Camila Luna, Jose A. Suárez.   +10 more
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Strategy for a globally coordinated response to a priority neglected tropical disease: Snakebite envenoming

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2019
In one of his final essays, statesman and former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan said, ‘Snakebite is the most important tropical disease you’ve never heard of’ [1]. Mr.
David J. Williams, M. A. Faiz, B. Abela-Ridder, S. Ainsworth, Tommaso C Bulfone, Andrea Nickerson, A. Habib, T. Junghanss, H. W. Fan, Michael Turner, R. Harrison, D. Warrell   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source