Snakebite envenoming

JM Gutiérrez, JJ Calvete, AG Habib… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2017 - nature.com
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 …

Haemotoxic snake venoms: their functional activity, impact on snakebite victims and pharmaceutical promise

J Slagboom, J Kool, RA Harrison… - British journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Snake venoms are mixtures of numerous proteinacious components that exert diverse
functional activities on a variety of physiological targets. Because the toxic constituents …

Trends in snakebite deaths in India from 2000 to 2019 in a nationally representative mortality study

W Suraweera, D Warrell, R Whitaker, G Menon… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
The World Health Organization call to halve global snakebite deaths by 2030 will require
substantial progress in India. We analyzed 2833 snakebite deaths from 611,483 verbal …

Global mortality of snakebite envenoming between 1990 and 2019

Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Snakebite envenoming is an important cause of preventable death. The World Health
Organization (WHO) set a goal to halve snakebite mortality by 2030. We used verbal …

The Indian cobra reference genome and transcriptome enables comprehensive identification of venom toxins

K Suryamohan, SP Krishnankutty, J Guillory, M Jevit… - Nature Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Snakebite envenoming is a serious and neglected tropical disease that kills~ 100,000
people annually. High-quality, genome-enabled comprehensive characterization of toxin …

Snakebite envenoming diagnosis and diagnostics

C Knudsen, JA Jürgensen, S Føns, AM Haack… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Snakebite envenoming is predominantly an occupational disease of the rural tropics,
causing death or permanent disability to hundreds of thousands of victims annually. The …

Neurotoxicity in snakebite—the limits of our knowledge

UK Ranawaka, DG Lalloo… - PLoS neglected tropical …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Snakebite is classified by the WHO as a neglected tropical disease. Envenoming is a
significant public health problem in tropical and subtropical regions. Neurotoxicity is a key …

[HTML][HTML] Access to antivenoms in the developing world: A multidisciplinary analysis

J Potet, D Beran, N Ray, G Alcoba, AG Habib, G Iliyasu… - Toxicon: X, 2021 - Elsevier
Access to safe, effective, quality-assured antivenom products that are tailored to endemic
venomous snake species is a crucial component of recent coordinated efforts to reduce the …

Phylovenomics of Daboia russelii across the Indian subcontinent. Bioactivities and comparative in vivo neutralization and in vitro third-generation antivenomics of …

D Pla, L Sanz, S Quesada-Bernat, M Villalta, J Baal… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Russell's viper (Daboia russelii) is, together with Naja naja, Bungarus caeruleus and Echis
carinatus, a member of the medically important 'Big Four'species responsible for causing a …

Secreted Phospholipases A2 of Snake Venoms: Effects on the Peripheral Neuromuscular System with Comments on the Role of Phospholipases A2 in Disorders of …

JB Harris, T Scott-Davey - Toxins, 2013 - mdpi.com
Neuro-and myotoxicological signs and symptoms are significant clinical features of
envenoming snakebites in many parts of the world. The toxins primarily responsible for the …