Bothrops atrox, the most important snake involved in human envenomings in the amazon: How venomics contributes to the knowledge of snake biology and clinical toxinology

Bothrops atrox, the most important snake involved in human envenomings in the amazon: How venomics contributes to the knowledge of snake biology and clinical toxinology

Bothrops atrox snakes are mostly endemic of the Amazon rainforest and is certainly the South American pit viper responsible for most of the snakebites in the region. The composition of B. atrox venom is significantly known and has been used to trace the relevance of the venom phenotype for snake bio...

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Main Authors: Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro, Jorge Carlos Contreras-Bernal, Pedro Ferreira Bisneto, Jacqueline Sachett, Iran Mendonça da Silva, Marcus Lacerda, Allyson Guimarães da Costa, Fernando Val, Lisele Brasileiro, Marco Aurélio Sartim, Sâmella Silva-de-Oliveira, Paulo Sérgio Bernarde, Igor L. Kaefer, Felipe Gobbi Grazziotin, Fan Hui Wen, Ana Maria Moura-da-Silva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-06-01
Series:Toxicon: X
Subjects:
Common lancehead
Envenoming
Venomics
Antivenomics
Antivenom
Viperidae
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590171020300151

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