Update of antivenom supply for redback spider bites in Japan

In autumn 2014, with great effort by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the research group will obtain several vials of redback spider (RBS) antivenom for emergency use. However, these small amounts of antivenom are insufficient to cover the demands from majority of hospitals in Japan. The...

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Autores principales: Hifumi, Toru, Taki, Hisashi, Yamamoto, Akihiko, Ato, Manabu, Koido, Yuichi, Kuroda, Yasuhiro
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4336267/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25705432
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40560-014-0070-3
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author Hifumi, Toru
Taki, Hisashi
Yamamoto, Akihiko
Ato, Manabu
Koido, Yuichi
Kuroda, Yasuhiro
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description In autumn 2014, with great effort by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the research group will obtain several vials of redback spider (RBS) antivenom for emergency use. However, these small amounts of antivenom are insufficient to cover the demands from majority of hospitals in Japan. The research group carefully discussed the domestic RBS antivenom production by themselves for this emergency. We have now entered the second stage for large-scale antivenom production. Although the domestic production of RBS antivenom has started, great caution is required as we move forward with this plan.
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spelling pubmed-43362672015-02-22 Update of antivenom supply for redback spider bites in Japan Hifumi, Toru Taki, Hisashi Yamamoto, Akihiko Ato, Manabu Koido, Yuichi Kuroda, Yasuhiro J Intensive Care Letter to the Editor In autumn 2014, with great effort by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the research group will obtain several vials of redback spider (RBS) antivenom for emergency use. However, these small amounts of antivenom are insufficient to cover the demands from majority of hospitals in Japan. The research group carefully discussed the domestic RBS antivenom production by themselves for this emergency. We have now entered the second stage for large-scale antivenom production. Although the domestic production of RBS antivenom has started, great caution is required as we move forward with this plan. BioMed Central 2015-02-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4336267/ /pubmed/25705432 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40560-014-0070-3 Text en © Hifumi et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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