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Snakebite envenoming: A systematic review and meta-analysis of global morbidity and mortality. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
BackgroundSnakebite envenoming represents a significant and often neglected public health challenge, particularly in rural communities across tropical and subtropical regions. An estimated 1.2-5.5 million people are envenomed by snakebites annually. More
Afsana Afroz, Bodrun Naher Siddiquea, Hasina Akhter Chowdhury, Timothy Nw Jackson, Andrew D Watt   +4 more
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Varespladib in the Treatment of Snakebite Envenoming: Development History and Preclinical Evidence Supporting Advancement to Clinical Trials in Patients Bitten by Venomous Snakes

Toxins, 2022
The availability of effective, reliably accessible, and affordable treatments for snakebite envenoming is a critical and long unmet medical need. Recently, small, synthetic toxin-specific inhibitors with oral bioavailability used in conjunction with ...
Matthew R. Lewin, Rebecca W. Carter, Isabel A. Matteo, Stephen P. Samuel, Sunita Rao, Bryan G. Fry, Philip E. Bickler   +6 more
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Antibiotic therapy for snakebite envenoming [PDF]

Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2020
There are numerous conflicting recommendations available on the use of antibiotics following snakebite. The present letter to the editor presents some recommendations based on recent studies, and aims to stimulate debate on this topic.
Dabor Resiere, José María Gutiérrez, Rémi Névière, André Cabié, Mehdaoui Hossein, Hatem Kallel   +5 more
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A Review of the Proteomic Profiling of African Viperidae and Elapidae Snake Venoms and Their Antivenom Neutralisation

Toxins, 2022
Snakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) that results from the injection of snake venom of a venomous snake into animals and humans.
Benedict C. Offor, Beric Muller, Lizelle A. Piater   +2 more
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Control of snakebite envenoming: A mathematical modeling study.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021
A mathematical model is designed to assess the impact of some interventional strategies for curtailing the burden of snakebite envenoming in a community. The model is fitted with real data set.
Shuaibu Ahijo Abdullahi, Abdulrazaq Garba Habib, Nafiu Hussaini   +2 more
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Clinical presentation and management of snakebite envenoming in northern Ghana. [PDF]

PLoS Negl Trop Dis
BACKGROUND: Snakebite envenoming is among the top five emergency health conditions in northern Ghana. Among the four genera of snake species classified to be of highest medical importance, species with haemotoxic venom are responsible for about 90% of ...
Aglanu LM, Amuasi JH, Duah IK, Agbogbatey MK, Steinhorst J, Adobasom-Anane AG, Bukari Z, Azabu TJ, Kreuels B, Lalloo DG, Stienstra Y.   +10 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Effect of COVID-19 containment measures on access to snakebite care in India

Rural and Remote Health, 2023
Introduction: The extensive spread of COVID-19 meant action to address the pandemic took precedence over routine service delivery, thus impacting access to care for many health conditions, including the effects of snakebite.Method: We prospectively ...
Soumyadeep Bhaumik, Gian Luca Di Tanna, Deepti Beri, Amritendu Bhattacharya, Pratyush Kumar, Surajit Giri, Maya Gopalakrishnan, Sadanand Raut, Amol Hartalkar , Sumanth Majgi , Jagnoor Jagnoor   +10 more
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In vitro and in vivo preclinical venom inhibition assays identify metalloproteinase inhibiting drugs as potential future treatments for snakebite envenoming by Dispholidus typus

Toxicon: X, 2022
Snakebite envenoming affects more than 250,000 people annually in sub-Saharan Africa. Envenoming by Dispholidus typus (boomslang) results in venom-induced consumption coagulopathy (VICC), whereby highly abundant prothrombin-activating snake venom ...
Stefanie K. Menzies, Rachel H. Clare, Chunfang Xie, Adam Westhorpe, Steven R. Hall, Rebecca J. Edge, Jaffer Alsolaiss, Edouard Crittenden, Amy E. Marriott, Robert A. Harrison, Jeroen Kool, Nicholas R. Casewell   +11 more
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Severe Bushmaster Snakebite Envenoming: Case Report and Overview [PDF]

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Manuela Berto Pucca, Luis Enrique Bermejo Galän, Allan Quadros Garcês Filho   +2 more
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Geographically regulated designs of incidence surveys can match the precision of classical survey designs whilst requiring smaller sample sizes: the case of snakebite envenoming in Sri Lanka

BMJ Global Health, 2022
Background Snakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease. Data from the worst affected countries are limited because conducting epidemiological surveys is challenging.
Peter Diggle, Anuradhani Kasturiratne, Dileepa Senajith Ediriweera, Hithanadura Janaka de Silva, Tiloka de Silva   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source