Severe coagulopathy after a bite of a green bush viper (Atheris Squamiger): Case report and biochemical analysis of the venom

Toxicon

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1333-1340

  Mebs, D ^a   Holada, K ^b   Kornalik F ^c   Simak J ^c   Vankova H ^c   Muller D ^e   Schoenemann, H ^e   Lange, H ^e   Herrmann, H W ^d  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF HEMATOLOGY AND BLOOD TRANSFUSION   (Czech Republic)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d Kölner Aquarium am ZOO   (Germany)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNAKE VENOM;

ADULT; AFIBRINOGENEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENVENOMATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LD 50; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; SNAKEBITE; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADULT; AFIBRINOGENEMIA; ANIMALS; BLOOD COAGULATION; BLOOD COMPONENT TRANSFUSION; BLOOD PLATELETS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; DIARRHEA; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LETHAL DOSE 50; MALE; MICE; NAUSEA; PLATELET AGGREGATION; RATS; SNAKE BITES; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VIPER VENOMS; VIPERIDAE; VOMITING;

ATHERIS; BITIS ARIETANS; NEPTUNIA; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA; VIPER;

EID: 0031831363     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(98)00008-7     Document Type: Article

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