The Need for Full Integration of Snakebite Envenoming within a Global Strategy to Combat the Neglected Tropical Diseases: The Way Forward

• José María Gutiérrez ,

  * E-mail: jose.gutierrez@ucr.ac.cr

  Affiliation Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

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• David A. Warrell,

  Affiliation Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• David J. Williams,

  Affiliations School of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Australian Venom Research Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Simon Jensen,

  Affiliations School of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Australian Venom Research Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Nicholas Brown,

  Affiliations Australian Venom Research Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston, Queensland, Australia

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• Juan J. Calvete,

  Affiliation Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Valencia, Spain

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• Robert A. Harrison,

  Affiliation Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• for the Global Snakebite Initiative