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Beyond the ‘big four’: Venom profiling of the medically important yet neglected Indian snakes reveals disturbing antivenom deficiencies
Commercially marketed Indian antivenoms were found to exhibit alarming deficiencies in neutralising the venoms of the medically important yet ‘neglected’ Indian snakes. These findings highlight the pressing need to produce broadly neutralising antivenoms in the country. Photograph of a banded krait (Bungarus fasciatus), one of the neglected species of Indian snakes examined in the study, is shown. Senji Laxme, et al. (2019)
Image Credit: Chaitanya Shukla
Citation: (2020) PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image | Vol. 13(12) July 2020. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 13(12): ev13.i12. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pntd.v13.i12
Published: July 7, 2020
Copyright: © 2020 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Commercially marketed Indian antivenoms were found to exhibit alarming deficiencies in neutralising the venoms of the medically important yet ‘neglected’ Indian snakes. These findings highlight the pressing need to produce broadly neutralising antivenoms in the country. Photograph of a banded krait (Bungarus fasciatus), one of the neglected species of Indian snakes examined in the study, is shown. Senji Laxme, et al. (2019)
Image Credit: Chaitanya Shukla