Severe envenoming by a Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica)

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 131, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 54-55

  Wildi, S M ^a   Gamperli A ^a   Beer, G ^a   Markwalder, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; VIPER VENOM;

ADULT; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; ENVENOMATION; FLUID THERAPY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; RESUSCITATION; STRIDOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035098721     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

References (4)

1. The Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica): Its biology, venom components and toxinology
2. The Gaboon viper, Bitis gabonica: Hemorrhagic, metabolic, cardiovascular and clinical effects of the venom
3. Antibiotic use and infection in snakebite victims
4. Accidental envenoming by a Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica): The haemostatic disturbances observed and investigations of in vitro haemostatic properties of whole venom