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 i...
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Main Authors: | R R Senji Laxme (Author), Suyog Khochare (Author), Hugo Francisco de Souza (Author), Bharat Ahuja (Author), Vivek Suranse (Author), Gerard Martin (Author), Romulus Whitaker (Author), Kartik Sunagar (Author) |
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2019-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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