1 Instituto Butantan, Secretaria de Estado da Saúde de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 2 Departamento de Ensino e Pesquisa, Fundação de Medicina Tropical Doutor Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Brazil, 3 Escola Superior de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, 4 Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, 5 Centro de Pesquisas...

From adenovirus-like viruses originating from a fish and a snake species, a conserved part of the adenoviral DNA polymerase gene was PCR amplified, cloned and sequenced. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the snake adenovirus is closely related to the members of the proposed genus Atadenovirus, whereas the fish isolate seems to represent a separate cluster, likely a new genus.

1 Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, 2 Graduate Institute of Biomedical Materials and Tissue Engineering, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, 3 Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 4 Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones ...

Snakebite has been a major cause of mortality across the tropical countries including Indian subcontinent. The present review deals with the enormous amount of ethnobotanical work performed in the last few years involving use of different plants against snakebite in Indian subcontinent (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal). From a variety of literature sources the data has been compiled menti...

Colour change in animals can be adaptive phenotypic plasticity in heterogeneous environments. Camouflage through background colour matching has been considered a primary force that drives the evolution of colour changing ability. However, the mechanism to which animals change their colour and patterns under visually heterogeneous backgrounds (i.e. consisting of more than one colour) has only be...

Every year there are hundreds of snake bites in Europe, but the main problems occur in tropical areas. Symptoms such as hemorrhages, paralysis and local necrosis vary according to the snake species. Inappropriate first aid should be avoided. Antitoxin should be administered if there are signs of poisoning. It is never too late to give antitoxin. Antitoxin can have a number of potentially very d...

Thousands of snake bites occur in the world each year, with hundreds of patients receiving antivenom. Incidence rates for immediate hypersensitivity reactions associated with the use of antivenom range vary. This is a case report of a patient with atrial fibrillation (AF) and transient ischemic attack (TIA) induced by vigrous snake bite that was suspected to be caused by the treatment of subcut...

OBJECTIVE Infections of snake bite wounds by Shewanella are rarely discussed in the medical literature. This study aims to characterize the presentation and management of Shewanella infections in snake bite wounds. METHOD We retrospectively investigated the microbiology, clinical features, and outcomes of patients with Shewanella infected snake bite wounds admitted to a tertiary medical cente...

MICROPROBE SNAKE A. Hauptner, T. Cremer, M. Deutsch, S. Dietzel, G. Dollinger, G. A. Drexler, A. A. Friedl, C. Greubel, V. Hable, R. Krücken, R. Löwe, and H. Strickfaden 1 Physik Department E12, Technische Universität München, Germany 2 Department Biologie II, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany 3 Strahlenbiologisches Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany 4 Insti...