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Clinical Profile and Pharmacological Management of Snakebites in Community Care Units: A Retrospective Study Using Two Military Hospital Databases in South Thailand

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023
Snakebite envenoming is an occupational hazard in remote rural areas of South Thailand, where the highest incidence of snakebites is reported. In this work, a hospital-based retrospective study of snakebite patients from 2012 to 2022 at Fort Wachirawut ...
Sethapong Lertsakulbunlue, Ratchakarn Suebtuam, Theethach Eamchotchawalit, Wittawat Chantkran, Janeyuth Chaisakul   +4 more
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Presentation, management, and outcome of snake-bite in two district hospitals in Ghana [PDF]

The Pan African Medical Journal, 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 ...
Damien Punguyire, Frank Baiden, Josephat Nyuzaghl, Aaron Hultgren, Yvonne Berko, Stephan Brenner, Sari Soghoian, George Adjei, Anjali Niyogi, Rachel Moresky   +9 more
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Snakebites in Rio Branco and surrounding region, Acre, Western Brazilian Amazon

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2020
INTRODUCTION Snakebites are considered a neglected tropical disease in many countries in Latin America, including Brazil. As few studies have assessed snakebites in the Amazon region and especially in the state of Acre, epidemiological studies are of ...
Laiane Parente de Oliveira, José Genivaldo do Vale Moreira, Jacqueline de Almeida Gonçalves Sachett, Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro, Dionatas Ulises de Oliveira Meneguetti, Paulo Sérgio Bernarde   +5 more
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Snakebites in Northeastern Brazil: accessing clinical-epidemiological profile as a strategy to deal with Neglected Tropical Diseases

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2023
Background: Brazil ranks first in the number of snakebites in South America. A detailed analysis of these cases is required to improve the public health planning.
Sâmia Caroline Melo Araújo, Joseneide Teixeira Câmara, Thaís B. Guedes   +2 more
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Wound Infections of Snakebites from the Venomous Protobothrops mucrosquamatus and Viridovipera stejnegeri in Taiwan: Bacteriology, Antibiotic Susceptibility, and Predicting the Need for Antibiotics—A BITE Study

Toxins, 2020
Snakebites from Taiwan habus (Protobothrops mucrosquamatus) and green bamboo vipers (Viridovipera stejnegeri) account for two-thirds of all venomous snakebites in Taiwan.
Chih-Chuan Lin, Yen-Chia Chen, Zhong Ning Leonard Goh, Chen-Ken Seak, Joanna Chen-Yeen Seak, Gao Shi-Ying, Chen-June Seak, SPOT Investigators   +7 more
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Venomous snakebites: Exploring social barriers and opportunities for the adoption of prevention measures

Conservation Science and Practice
Negative interactions between humans and venomous snakes are increasing, with the World Health Organization committed to halving snakebite deaths and disabilities by 2030. Evidence‐based strategies are thus urgently required to reduce snakebite events in
Harrison Carter, Xavier Glaudas, Romulus Whitaker, Gnaneswar Chandrasekharun, Kimberley Hockings, Ana Nuno   +5 more
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First Aid and Pre-Hospital Management of Venomous Snakebites

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2018
Background: Antivenom is the definitive treatment for venomous snakebites, but is expensive and not available in many rural and poorly developed regions.
Jennifer Parker-Cote, William J. Meggs
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A Case Report of Postpartum Hemorrhage Secondary to Snake Bite Envenomation: A Pathogenesis and Current Management Review. [PDF]

Case Rep Obstet Gynecol
Background Snakebite envenomation (SBE) is a tropical disease with significant global morbidity and mortality, particularly affecting low‐resource settings. During pregnancy, SBE poses unique challenges, increasing both maternal and fetal mortality. Limited access to antivenom and delayed treatment further worsen outcomes.
Loza-Hernandez F, Haro A, Carrión G, Loza H.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Epidemiological and clinical aspects of snakebites in the upper Juruá River region, western Brazilian Amazonia [PDF]

Acta Amazonica, 2019
This study addresses the clinical and epidemiological aspects of envenoming cases resulting from snakebites treated at a hospital in Cruzeiro do Sul, in the upper Juruá River region, western Brazilian Amazonia. The specific identity of snakes that caused
Ageane Mota da Silva, Mônica Colombini, Ana M. Moura‐da‐Silva, Rodrigo Medeiros de Souza, Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro, Paulo Sérgio Bernarde   +5 more
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Snakebites in the Americas: a Neglected Problem in Public Health

Current Tropical Medicine Reports, 2023
Purpose of Review We explored the current priority given to snakebites in 26 countries of the Americas. To describe the epidemiological characteristics of the snakebites in the Americas and the Caribbean, we looked at information collected from ...
Eduardo A Fernández C, Peter Youssef
semanticscholar   +1 more source