Protease Inhibitors from Marine Venomous Animals and Their Counterparts in Terrestrial Venomous Animals [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2013 The Kunitz-type protease inhibitors are the best-characterized family of serine protease inhibitors, probably due to their abundance in several organisms.
Caroline B. F. Mourão +1 more
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Antimicrobials from Venomous Animals: An Overview [PDF]
Molecules, 2020 The inappropriate or excessive use of antimicrobial agents caused an emerging public health problem due to the resulting resistance developed by microbes. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop effective antimicrobial strategies relying on natural
Tania Yacoub +4 more
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Diagnosis of human envenoming by terrestrial venomous animals: Routine, advances, and perspectives [PDF]
Toxicon: XDespite the development of new and advanced diagnostic approaches, monitoring the clinical evolution of accidents caused by venomous animals is still a challenge for science.
Joeliton S. Cavalcante +4 more
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Completeness of notifications of accidents involving venomous animals in the Information System for Notifiable Diseases: a descriptive study, Brazil, 2007-2019. [PDF]
Epidemiol Serv Saude, 2023 Objective: to describe the completeness of notifications of accidents involving venomous animals held on the Notifiable Health Conditions Information System (SINAN), in Brazil and its macro-regions, from 2007 to 2019.
Brito M +3 more
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Terrestrial venomous animals, the envenomings they cause, and treatment perspectives in the Middle East and North Africa. [PDF]
PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2021 The Middle East and Northern Africa, collectively known as the MENA region, are inhabited by a plethora of venomous animals that cause up to 420,000 bites and stings each year. To understand the resultant health burden and the key variables affecting it,
Jenkins TP +10 more
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Trend in the incidence rates of accidents with venomous animals in children and adolescents in Brazil (2007-2019). [PDF]
Rev Paul Pediatr, 2022 Objective: To estimate the temporal trend of the incidence rates of accidents with venomous animals in children and adolescents in Brazil. Methods: An ecological time-series study was carried out between 2007 and 2019.
Konstantyner TCRO +4 more
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Temporal trend and epidemiological profile of accidents involving venomous animals in Brazil, 2007-2019. [PDF]
Epidemiol Serv Saude, 2022 Objective: to analyze the temporal trend of accidents involving venomous animals in Brazil from 2007 to 2019. Methods: this was a cross-sectional study carried out with data from the Notifiable Health Conditions Information System (SINAN).
Souza TC +6 more
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Acute kidney injury caused by venomous animals: inflammatory mechanisms. [PDF]
J Venom Anim Toxins Incl Trop Dis, 2021 Either bites or stings of venomous animals comprise relevant public health problems in tropical countries. Acute kidney injury (AKI) induced by animal toxins is related to worse prognostic and outcomes. Being one the most important pathways to induce AKI
de Oliveira NA +3 more
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Epidemiology of accidents involving venomous animals in the State of Ceará, Brazil (2007-2019). [PDF]
Rev Soc Bras Med Trop, 2021 INTRODUCTION: Envenomation remains a neglected public health problem in most tropical countries. Epidemiological studies on accidents caused by venomous animals are scarce in the Northeast region of Brazil, mainly in the state of Ceará. The present study
Braga JRM +4 more
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Profile of work accidents caused by venomous animals in Brazil's Federal District from 2009 to 2019. [PDF]
Rev Bras Med Trab, 2022 Introduction The high numbers of accidents involving venomous animals in tropical countries is a major public health problem and has prompted the World Health Organization to place them on its list of neglected tropical diseases.
Tibério CT, Magalhães AFA.
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