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 …

[PDF][PDF] Snakebite envenoming: a strategy for prevention and control

World Health Organization - 2019 - apps.who.int
SNAKEBITE ENVENOMING Page 1 SNAKEBITE ENVENOMING A strategy for prevention and
control Page 2 SNAKEBITE ENVENOMING A strategy for prevention and control Page 3 …

Strategy for a globally coordinated response to a priority neglected tropical disease: Snakebite envenoming

DJ Williams, MA Faiz, B Abela-Ridder… - PLoS neglected …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
In one of his final essays, statesman and former United Nations secretary general Kofi
Annan said,'Snakebite is the most important tropical disease you've never heard of'[1]. Mr …

Vulnerability to snakebite envenoming: a global mapping of hotspots

J Longbottom, FM Shearer, M Devine, G Alcoba… - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background Snakebite envenoming is a frequently overlooked cause of mortality and
morbidity. Data for snake ecology and existing snakebite interventions are scarce, limiting …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond the 'big four': Venom profiling of the medically important yet neglected Indian snakes reveals disturbing antivenom deficiencies

RRS Laxme, S Khochare, HF de Souza… - PLoS neglected …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Snakebite in India causes the highest annual rates of death (46,000) and
disability (140,000) than any other country. Antivenom is the mainstay treatment of …

[PDF][PDF] Innovative approaches to neutralizing cobra venom: Advances in antivenomics and recombinant antivenoms

I Karunarathna, K De Alvis, P Gunasena… - 2024 - researchgate.net
The King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) holds cultural significance and is one of the most
medically important venomous snakes worldwide. Envenomation by King Cobras often …

Medically important differences in snake venom composition are dictated by distinct postgenomic mechanisms

NR Casewell, SC Wagstaff, W Wüster… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Variation in venom composition is a ubiquitous phenomenon in snakes and occurs both
interspecifically and intraspecifically. Venom variation can have severe outcomes for …

Estimate of the burden of snakebites in sub-Saharan Africa: a meta-analytic approach

JP Chippaux - Toxicon, 2011 - Elsevier
Snakebites represent an important neglected public health problem in many developing
countries. There is a lack of epidemiological data, which would be very useful for the …