Efficacy of Wyeth polyvalent antivenin used in the pretreatment of copperhead envenomation in mice

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 142-145

  Brubacher, Jeffrey R ^a   Lachmanen, Dion ^b   Huffman, Robert S ^c  

^a VANCOUVER HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK CITY POISON CONTROL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Antivenin; Copperhead; Crotalid; Envenomation

Indexed keywords

SNAKE VENOM; VENOM ANTISERUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; ENVENOMATION; FEMALE; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LETHAL DOSE; LETHALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SNAKEBITE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0032702912     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(1999)010[0142:EOWPAU]2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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