Response to comment on: Failure of a new antivenom to treat Echis ocellatus snake bite in rural Ghana: the importance of quality surveillance

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 103, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 965-966

  Warrell, David A ^a   Williams, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b School of Medicine   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASNA C; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DRUG LABELING; DRUG MARKETING; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG QUALITY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ENVENOMATION; GHANA; LETTER; RURAL AREA; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE;

ECHIS OCELLATUS;

EID: 68249109435     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2009.06.004     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

1. Visser L.E., Kyei-Faried S., Belcher D.W., Geelhoed D.W., van Leeuwen J.S., and van Roosmalen J. Failure of a new antivenom to treat Echis ocellatus snake bite in rural Ghana: the importance of quality surveillance. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 102 (2008) 445-450
2. Warrell D.A. Unscrupulous marketing of snake bite antivenoms in Africa and Papua New Guinea: choosing the right product-'What's in a name?'. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 102 (2008) 397-399