Haematological evaluation of patients bitten by the jararaca, Bothrops jararaca, in Brazil

Toxicon

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1440-1448

  Santoro, Marcelo L ^a   Sano Martins, Ida S ^a   Fan, Hui W ^a   Cardoso, João L C ^a   Theakston, R David G ^b   Warrell, David A ^c  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antivenom reactions; Complete blood count; Necrosis; Oedema; Snake bite envenoming

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CHLORPHENIRAMINE MALEATE; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM;

ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVENOMATION; EOSINOPHIL; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NECROSIS; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOURNIQUET;

ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; BOTHROPS; BRAZIL; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NECROSIS; PLATELET COUNT; SNAKE BITES;

BOTHROPS JARARACA; SERPENTES;

EID: 44649089318     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2008.03.018     Document Type: Article

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