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Pre-Clinical Assays Predict Pan-African Echis Viper Efficacy for a Species-Specific Antivenom

BACKGROUND: Snakebite is a significant cause of death and disability in subsistent farming populations of sub-Saharan Africa. Antivenom is the most effective treatment of envenoming and is manufactured from IgG of venom-immunised horses/sheep but, because of complex fiscal reasons, there is a paucit...

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Autores principales: Casewell, Nicholas R., Cook, Darren A. N., Wagstaff, Simon C., Nasidi, Abdulsalami, Durfa, Nandul, Wüster, Wolfgang, Harrison, Robert A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21049058
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000851