Immunodiagnosis of Snake Bite

Immunodiagnosis of snake bite.

Management of a patient with snake bite is influenced by the nature of the offending snake. Species diagnosis based on the patient's history and physical signs is often unreliable and the possibility of making a species diagnosis by immunological means has therefore been investigated. Wound aspirates, blister fluids, sera, and urine samples from patients with snake bite were examined for the pr...

Snake bite.

Snake bite is a common and frequently devastating environmental and occupational disease, especially in rural areas of tropical developing countries. Its public health importance has been largely ignored by medical science. Snake venoms are rich in protein and peptide toxins that have specificity for a wide range of tissue receptors, making them clinically challenging and scientifically fascina...

Snake-Bite

The Global Snake Bite Initiative: an antidote for snake bite.

Clinicians have for a long time witnessed the tragedy of injury, disability, and death from snake bite that is a daily occurrence in many parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. To many people living in these regions, including some of the world’s poorest communities, snake bite is an ever present occupational risk and environmental hazard, an additional penalty of poverty. Like malaria, deng...

Chronic Snake-Bite

lnS season) or during egg-laying period then the victim is bitten repeatedly during that period every year, and in worse cases even on the same dates every month. Some persons allege the bite is^ influenced by particular phases of the moon. It is said that during that period a particular type of smell is emanated by the victim which attracts male snakes exactly as if they would be attracted by ...