Clinical aspects of snakebite envenoming and its treatment in low-resource settings

DA Warrell, DJ Williams - The Lancet, 2023 - thelancet.com
There is increasing recognition of the public health importance of snakebite envenoming.
Worldwide annual incidence is likely to be 5 million bites, with mortality exceeding 150 000 …

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 …

Old World Vipers—a review about snake venom proteomics of Viperinae and their variations

M Damm, BF Hempel, RD Süssmuth - Toxins, 2021 - mdpi.com
Fine-tuned by millions of years of evolution, snake venoms have frightened but also
fascinated humanity and nowadays they constitute potential resources for drug …

Snake envenomation

SA Seifert, JO Armitage… - New England Journal of …, 2022 - Mass Medical Soc
Snakebites Snake envenomation is a global health problem. The range of clinical sequelae
includes thromboses and neuromuscular paralysis. Antivenoms made in horses and sheep …

Managing snakebite

R Ralph, MA Faiz, SK Sharma, I Ribeiro, F Chappuis - bmj, 2022 - bmj.com
• Bites from venomous snakes can result in bleeding, paralysis, long term disability, and
death• Immobilise the bitten limb when transporting the patient to a medical facility; the …

Venomics and Peptidomics of Palearctic Vipers: A Clade-Wide Analysis of Seven Taxa of the Genera Vipera, Montivipera, Macrovipera, and Daboia across …

M Damm, M Karış, D Petras… - Journal of Proteome …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Snake venom variations are a crucial factor to understand the consequences of snakebite
envenoming worldwide, and therefore it is important to know about toxin composition …

[HTML][HTML] Multifaceted community health education programs as powerful tools to mitigate snakebite-induced deaths, disabilities, and socioeconomic burden

S Vaiyapuri, P Kadam, G Chandrasekharuni… - Toxicon: X, 2023 - Elsevier
Snakebite envenoming (SBE) predominantly affects rural impoverished communities that
have limited access to immediate healthcare. These communities often hold numerous …

Photobiomodulation Therapy to Treat Snakebites Caused by Bothrops atrox: A Randomized Clinical Trial

É da Silva Carvalho… - JAMA Internal …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Bothropsvenom acts almost immediately at the bite site and causes tissue
damage. Objective To investigate the feasibility and explore the safety and efficacy of low …

Validation of a culturally relevant snakebite envenomation clinical practice guideline in Brazil

GS Rocha, AS Farias, JA Alcântara, VA Machado… - Toxins, 2022 - mdpi.com
Snakebite envenoming (SBE) is a neglected tropical disease with significant global
morbidity and mortality. Even when antivenom is available in low-resource areas, health …

What the snake leaves in its wake: Functional limitations and disabilities among snakebite victims in Ghanaian communities

LM Aglanu, JH Amuasi, BA Schut… - PLoS neglected …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background The estimated five million snakebites per year are an important health problem
that mainly affect rural poor populations. The global goal is to halve both mortality and …