A Combined Strategy to Improve the Development of a Coral Antivenom Against Micrurus spp.

A Combined Strategy to Improve the Development of a Coral Antivenom Against Micrurus spp.

Accidents involving Micrurus snakes are not the most common ones but are noteworthy due to their severity. Victims envenomed by Micrurus snakes are at high risk of death and therefore must be treated with coral antivenom. In Brazil, the immunization mixture used to fabricate coral antivenom contains...

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Main Authors: Karen Larissa Pereira de Castro, Letícia Lopes-de-Souza, Daysiane de Oliveira, Ricardo Andrez Machado-de-Ávila, Ana Luiza Bittencourt Paiva, Cláudio F. de Freitas, Paulo Lee Ho, Carlos Chávez-Olórtegui, Clara Guerra-Duarte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
Subjects:
antivenom
synthetic peptides
Micrurus
snake
epitopes
three-finger toxins
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fimmu.2019.02422/full

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