Asp Viper (Vipera aspis) Envenomation: Experience of the Marseille Poison Centre from 1996 to 2008

Asp Viper (Vipera aspis) Envenomation: Experience of the Marseille Poison Centre from 1996 to 2008

UNLABELLED A retrospective case review study of viper envenomations collected by the Marseille's Poison Centre between 1996 and 2008 was performed. RESULTS 174 cases were studied (52 grade 1 = G1, 90 G2 and 32 G3). G1 patients received symptomatic treatments (average hospital stay 0.96 day). One hundred and six (106) of the G2/G3 patients were treated with the antivenom Viperfav* (2.1+/-0.9 d...

Eye muscle paralysis after Vipera aspis envenomation.

Molecular phylogeography of the asp viper Vipera aspis (Linnaeus, 1758) in Italy: evidence for introgressive hybridization and mitochondrial DNA capture.

Owing to its temperature dependence and low vagility, the asp viper (Vipera aspis) is an interesting model species to study the effects of Pleistocene climatic fluctuations on vertebrate genomes. We genotyped 102 specimens from the whole Italian distribution range at three mitochondrial DNA regions (2278 characters, total) and six microsatellite DNA loci (Short Tandem Repeats, STR). The molecul...

Impact of cool versus warm temperatures on gestation in the aspic viper (Vipera aspis).

Previous experimental data suggested that digestion and growth rates are not impaired under cool constant temperature (23°C) in a viviparous snake (Vipera aspis). These results challenged the widespread notion that both elevated temperatures (e.g. 30°C) and temperature fluctuations are required for digestion and growth in temperate climate reptiles. Here, we investigated the impact of constant ...

Geographic variation of body size and reproductive patterns in Continental versus Mediterranean asp vipers, Vipera aspis

Museo di Storia Naturale e del Territorio, Università di Pisa, via Roma 79, I-56011 Calci (Pisa), Italy Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Università di Pavia, p.za Botta 9, I-27100 Pavia, Italy Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, CNRS, F-79360 Villiers en Bois, France FIZV (Ecology), via Olona 7, I-00198 Rome, Italy Dipartimento di Biologia (Unità di ProtistologiaZoologia), Università di Pisa...