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Beyond the ‘big four’: Venom profiling of the medically important yet neglected Indian snakes reveals disturbing antivenom deficiencies

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 snakebite, whose manufacturing protocols, in essence, have remained unchanged for over a century. In India, a polyvalent antivenom...

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Autores principales: Senji Laxme, R. R., Khochare, Suyog, de Souza, Hugo Francisco, Ahuja, Bharat, Suranse, Vivek, Martin, Gerard, Whitaker, Romulus, Sunagar, Kartik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6894822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31805055
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007899