Urgent administration of antivenom following proven krait bites in Southeast Asia irrespective of neurotoxic symptoms

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2024 Apr 11;18(4):e0012079. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0012079. eCollection 2024 Apr.

Authors

Joerg Blessmann¹, Benno Kreuels^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Research Group Snakebite envenoming, Department of Implementation Research, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany.
² Section for Tropical Medicine, I. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center, Hamburg, Germany.

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Animals
Antivenins* / therapeutic use
Asia, Southeastern / epidemiology
Bungarotoxins
Bungarus
Snake Bites* / complications
Snake Bites* / drug therapy

Substances

Antivenins
Bungarotoxins

Grants and funding

The authors received no specific funding for this work.