Journal article
Snakebite envenoming
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Snakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease that kills >100,000 people and maims >400,000 people every year. Impoverished populations living in the rural tropics are particularly vulnerable; snakebite envenoming perpetuates the cycle of poverty. Snake venoms are complex mixtures of proteins that exert a wide range of toxic actions. The high variability in snake venom composition is responsible for the various clinical manifestations in envenomings, ranging from local tissue dam...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- Journal:
- Nature Reviews Disease Primers More from this journal
- Volume:
- 3
- Article number:
- 17063
- Publication date:
- 2017-09-14
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- ISSN:
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2056-676X
- Pmid:
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28905944
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English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:730162
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uuid:9beb026a-c9cd-4970-bf52-ce5ae02dd8b1
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pubs:730162
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730162
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2017-09-22
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- Copyright holder:
- Gutiérrez et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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