International Snakebite Awareness Day 2024: Article Collection
To mark International Snakebite Awareness Day on September 19th, 2024, we have collated the most recent, impactful snakebite research from across the RSTMH portfolio.
Highlights include an article on infections following rattlesnake envenomation and use of antibiotics and a 13-year ecological analysis on snakebite epidemiology in Mexico.
All papers in the collection are free-to-read.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene
Attitudes, knowledge and practices of traditional snakebite healers in Nepal: implications for prevention and control of snakebite
Deb P Pandey, Gita Subedi (Pandey), Sunil Sapkota, Dharma R Dangol, Naba R Devkota
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 117, Issue 3, March 2023, Pages 219–228 https://academic.oup.com/trstmh/article-abstract/117/3/219/6822707
Published: 11 November 2022
A retrospective study of clinical and epidemiological characteristics of snakebite in Napo Province, Ecuadorian Amazon
Ricardo S P Patiño, David Salazar-Valenzuela, Alberto A Robles-Loaiza, Paola Santacruz-Ortega, José R Almeida
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 117, Issue 2, February 2023, Pages 118–127 https://academic.oup.com/trstmh/article-abstract/117/2/118/6653509
Published: 02 August 2022
Healthcare practitioners' knowledge of snakebite management and associated factors in high-burden, low-resource settings in Uganda
Solomon T Wafula, Innocent B Mugume, Lydia N Namakula, Aisha Nalugya, Vencia Naggayi, Abel W Walekhwa, David Musoke
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 117, Issue 8, August 2023, Pages 569–579 https://academic.oup.com/trstmh/article-abstract/117/8/569/7128317
Published: 18 April 2023
Lifetime prevalence and knowledge of snakebite among graduates in Nigeria
Godpower C Michael, Bukar A Grema, Auwal A Bala, Abdulgafar L Olawumi, Aisa A Gana, Jeremiah K A Madaki, Abdulrazaq G Habib
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 117, Issue 7, July 2023, Pages 505–513 https://academic.oup.com/trstmh/article-abstract/117/7/505/7058783
Published: 27 February 2023
A prospective study of snakebite in a tertiary care hospital in south-western Nepal
Deb Prasad Pandey, Bhola Ram Shrestha, Krishna Prasad Acharya, Khagendra Jang Shah, Chhabilal Thapa-Magar, Ishwari Prasad Dhakal, Fahim Mohamed, Geoffrey K Isbister
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 117, Issue 6, June 2023, Pages 435–443 https://academic.oup.com/trstmh/article-abstract/117/6/435/6972592
Published: 06 January 2023
Clinical characteristics of snakebite patients attending a tertiary hospital in Hangzhou, southeast China
Yuchen Shen, Sipin Hu, Shuhua Bao, Mengyun Tu
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 118, Issue 4, April 2024, Pages 287–292 https://academic.oup.com/trstmh/article-abstract/118/4/287/7468836
Published: 11 December 2023
Decomplexation proteomic analysis and purity assessment of a biologic for snakebite envenoming: Philippine Cobra Antivenom
Praneetha Palasuberniam, Kae Yi Tan, Yi Wei Chan, Francis Bonn Blanco, Choo Hock Tan
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 117, Issue 6, June 2023, Pages 428–434 https://academic.oup.com/trstmh/article-abstract/117/6/428/6972591
Published: 06 January 2023
Factors associated with mortality after snakebite envenoming in children: a scoping review
Lucy Guile, Adrienne Lee, José María Gutiérrez
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 117, Issue 9, September 2023, Pages 617–627 https://academic.oup.com/trstmh/article/117/9/617/7188760
Published: 02 June 2023
Lack of controlled studies on snakebite prevention: a rapid review
Chaturaka Rodrigo and Ariaranee Gnanathasan
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 118, Issue 4, April 2024, Pages 247–252 https://academic.oup.com/trstmh/article-abstract/118/4/247/7471694
Published: 13 December 2023
Snakebites epidemiology in Mexico: a 13-year ecological analysis
Ricardo Méndez-Molina, Ailed Karola Villela-Oriza, Andrea Ariadne Espinosa-Couoh, Oswaldo Huchim-Lara
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 118, Issue 2, February 2024, Pages 118–126 https://academic.oup.com/trstmh/article-abstract/118/2/118/7281768
Published: 25 September 2023
Comparative functional characterization and in vitro immunological cross-reactivity studies on Daboia russelii and Craspedocephalus malabaricus venom
Karthika Rajan, Aswathy Alangode, Jaideep C Menon, Dileepkumar Raveendran, Sudarslal Sadasivan Nair, Margaret Reick, Bipin Gopalakrishnan Nair, Martin Reick, Muralidharan Vanuopadath
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trae038 https://academic.oup.com/trstmh/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/trstmh/trae038/7690844
Published: 11 June 2024
Infections following rattlesnake envenomation and use of antibiotics
Stephen A Klotz, Geoffrey T Smelski, Sarah A Watkins, F Mazda Shirazi
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trae044 https://academic.oup.com/trstmh/advance-article/doi/10.1093/trstmh/trae044/7723274
Published: 29 July 2024
International Health
The Amazonian Tropical Bites Research Initiative, a hope for resolving zoonotic neglected tropical diseases in the One Health era
Emma Taylor, Elsa Gladys Aguilar-Ancori, Ashley C Banyard, Isis Abel, Clara Mantini-Briggs, Charles L Briggs, Carolina Carrillo, Cesar M Gavidia, Ricardo Castillo-Neyra, Alejandro D Parola, Fredy E Villena, Joaquin M Prada, Brett W Petersen, Nestor Falcon Perez, Cesar Cabezas Sanchez, Moises Sihuincha, Daniel G Streicker, Ciro Maguina Vargas, Ana Maria Navarro Vela, Marco A N Vigilato, Hui Wen Fan, Rodney Willoughby, Daniel L Horton, Sergio E Recuenco
International Health, Volume 15, Issue 2, March 2023, Pages 216–223 https://academic.oup.com/inthealth/article/15/2/216/6650835
Published: 27 July 2022
