Diversity of Micrurus snake species related to their venom toxic effects and the prospective of antivenom neutralization

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Tanaka, Gabriela D ^a   Furtado, Maria De Fátima D ^a   Portaro, Fernanda C V ^a   Sant'Anna, Osvaldo Augusto ^a   Tambourgi, Denise V ^a  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYALURONIDASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; SNAKE VENOM; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; VENOM ANTISERUM;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DRUG ACTIVITY; ENVENOMATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; LD 50; MICRURUS ALTIROSTRIS; MICRURUS CORALLINUS; MICRURUS FRONTALIS; MICRURUS FULVIUS; MICRURUS HEMPRICHII; MICRURUS IBIBOBOCA; MICRURUS LEMNISCATUS; MICRURUS SPIXII; MICRURUS SURINAMENSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BRAZIL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MEXICO; PHYSIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAZIL; CROSS REACTIONS; ELAPIDAE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; MEXICO; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; SNAKE VENOMS; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 77950393340     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000622     Document Type: Article

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