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Preliminary Insights of Brazilian Snake Venom Metalloproteomics
Toxins, 2023 Snakebite envenoming is one of the most significantly neglected tropical diseases in the world. The lack of diagnosis/prognosis methods for snakebite is one of our motivations to develop innovative technological solutions for Brazilian health.
Bruna Cavecci-Mendonça +10 more
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Toxins, 2022 The evolution of snake venoms resulted in multigene toxin families that code for structurally similar isoforms eventually harboring distinct functions. PLA2s are dominant toxins in viper venoms, and little is known about the impact of their diversity on ...
Leijiane F. Sousa +8 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 +5 more
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Snakebites are associated with poverty, weather fluctuations, and El Niño [PDF]
, 2015 Snakebites are environmental and occupational health hazards that mainly affect rural populations worldwide. The ectothermic nature of snakes raises the issue of how climate change’s impact on snake ecology could influence the incidence of snakebites in ...
Sasa Marín, Mahmood +5 more
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Snakebites: reducing their international impact [PDF]
, 2017 Australian toxinology can contribute more to helping tropical developing countries where snakebites are a serious ...
David A Warrell +2 more
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Characteristics of the 172 study participants according to their history of snakebites. [PDF]
, 2021 Characteristics of the 172 study participants according to their history of snakebites.
Guilherme Kemeron Maciel Salazar (11414372) +14 more
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Toxins, 2023 Patients bitten by Protobothrops mucrosquamatus, Viridovipera stejnegeri, and Naja atra develop different degrees of wound infection. This study validated BITE and Cobra BITE scoring systems that we established previously.
Heng Yeh, Shi-Ying Gao, Chih-Chuan Lin
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Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2017 Snakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease that kills >100,000 people and maims >400,000 people every year. Impoverished populations living in the rural tropics are particularly vulnerable; snakebite envenoming perpetuates the cycle of poverty. Snake venoms are complex mixtures of proteins that exert a wide range of toxic actions.
Gutiérrez, J +5 more
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Populated areas in high risk of snakebites. [PDF]
, 2013 Populated areas = areas within 2 km from a census tract centroid in a high risk of snakebites, i.e. in districts with a high snakebite incidence, and/or in an area suitable for B. asper.
Arodys Robles (278369) +4 more
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Presentation, management, and outcome of snake-bite in two district hospitals in Ghana
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 +9 more
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