Revisiting saw-scaled viper (Echis carinatus) bites in the Jaffna Peninsula of Sri Lanka: Distribution, epidemiology and clinical manifestations

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 105, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 591-597

  Kularatne, S A M ^a   Sivansuthan, S ^b   Medagedara, S C ^a   Maduwage, K ^a   de Silva, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^b Teaching Hospital Jaffna   (Sri Lanka)

^c NONE   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Coagulopathy; Echis carinatus; Local envenoming; Saw scaled viper; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ECHIS CARINATUS; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; FINGER; FOOT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GINGIVA BLEEDING; HEMATEMESIS; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LEG; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SRI LANKA; SWELLING; TOE; TOURNIQUET;

ECHIS CARINATUS; SERPENTES;

EID: 84860410591     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2011.07.010     Document Type: Article

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