Literature DB >> 17287747

Bringing antivenoms to Sub-Saharan Africa.

Roberto P Stock1, Achille Massougbodji, Alejandro Alagón, Jean-Philippe Chippaux.   

Abstract

To reduce unacceptably high death rates from snakebite envenomation, sub-Saharan Africa must adopt not only a new generation of multivalent biotech antivenoms, but also an infrastructure to deliver them.

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Year:  2007        PMID： 17287747     DOI： 10.1038/nbt0207-173

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Nat Biotechnol        ISSN： 1087-0156            Impact factor:   54.908


  22 in total

1.  Antivenomic assessment of the immunological reactivity of EchiTAb-Plus-ICP, an antivenom for the treatment of snakebite envenoming in sub-Saharan Africa.

Authors:  Juan J Calvete; Pedro Cid; Libia Sanz; Alvaro Segura; Mauren Villalta; María Herrera; Guillermo León; Robert Harrison; Nandul Durfa; Abdusalami Nasidi; R David G Theakston; David A Warrell; José María Gutiérrez
Journal:  Am J Trop Med Hyg       Date:  2010-06       Impact factor: 2.345

2.  Randomised controlled double-blind non-inferiority trial of two antivenoms for saw-scaled or carpet viper (Echis ocellatus) envenoming in Nigeria.

Authors:  Isa S Abubakar; Saidu B Abubakar; Abdulrazaq G Habib; Abdulsalam Nasidi; Nandul Durfa; Peter O Yusuf; Solomon Larnyang; John Garnvwa; Elijah Sokomba; Lateef Salako; R David G Theakston; Ed Juszczak; Nicola Alder; David A Warrell
Journal:  PLoS Negl Trop Dis       Date:  2010-07-27

3.  Pre-clinical assays predict pan-African Echis viper efficacy for a species-specific antivenom.

Authors:  Nicholas R Casewell; Darren A N Cook; Simon C Wagstaff; Abdulsalami Nasidi; Nandul Durfa; Wolfgang Wüster; Robert A Harrison
Journal:  PLoS Negl Trop Dis       Date:  2010-10-26

4.  Consequences of neglect: analysis of the sub-Saharan African snake antivenom market and the global context.

Authors:  Nicholas I Brown
Journal:  PLoS Negl Trop Dis       Date:  2012-06-05

5.  Estimating the global burden of snakebite can help to improve management.

Authors:  Jean-Philippe Chippaux
Journal:  PLoS Med       Date:  2008-11-04       Impact factor: 11.069

6.  African adders: partial characterization of snake venoms from three Bitis species of medical importance and their neutralization by experimental equine antivenoms.

Authors:  Danielle Paixão-Cavalcante; Alexandre K Kuniyoshi; Fernanda C V Portaro; Wilmar Dias da Silva; Denise V Tambourgi
Journal:  PLoS Negl Trop Dis       Date:  2015-02-02

7.  Use of antivenoms for the treatment of envenomation by Elapidae snakes in Guinea, Sub-Saharan Africa.

Authors:  Mamadou C Baldé; Jean-Philippe Chippaux; Mamadou Y Boiro; Roberto P Stock; Achille Massougbodji
Journal:  J Venom Anim Toxins Incl Trop Dis       Date:  2013-03-28

8.  Correlation between annual activity patterns of venomous snakes and rural people in the Niger Delta, southern Nigeria.

Authors:  Godfrey C Akani; Nwabueze Ebere; Daniel Franco; Edem A Eniang; Fabio Petrozzi; Edoardo Politano; Luca Luiselli
Journal:  J Venom Anim Toxins Incl Trop Dis       Date:  2013-02-27

9.  Public health aspects of snakebite care in West Africa: perspectives from Nigeria.

Authors:  Abdulrazaq G Habib
Journal:  J Venom Anim Toxins Incl Trop Dis       Date:  2013-10-17

10.  The use of ecological niche modeling to infer potential risk areas of snakebite in the Mexican state of Veracruz.

Authors:  Carlos Yañez-Arenas; A Townsend Peterson; Pierre Mokondoko; Octavio Rojas-Soto; Enrique Martínez-Meyer
Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2014-06-25       Impact factor: 3.240
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