Banded krait (Bungarus multicinctus; BM), one of the major envenomation species in Taiwan, contains neurotoxic venom proteins (BM proteins), that poses a serious medical problem in tropical and sub-tropical countries. Even though horse-derived serum is an efficient therapy against snake venom, it is associated with high cost and side effects. Therefore, developing a more cost-effective alternat...

Sir,?In reply to Capt. A. J. Bett's enquiry as to how I identified the Krait, I would draw his attention to the excellent way the identification of the Krait is expounded in Major Wall's book on the poisonous snakes of IndiaHowever, I believe that it is possible that a poisonous snake can bite without injecting poison, owing to its poison glands being empty at the time, as I don't doubt for a m...

for some time, formed an imperfect coagulum. The parts about the fang punctures were livid. Experiment No. 2.?A full-grown and vigorous pariah dog was bitten in the outer part of the thigh by the same Bungarus at 1-48 p.m. of the 7th July. The punctures drew blood, and the dog winced and gave signs of pain for a moment. For some minutes after the bite the dog seemed quite unaffected, he ran abo...

At Kunjah, six miles from Gujrat, he did not find any snake charmers and he decided to find some snakes for himself. He came upon a dark steel-black snake about two feet long with regular white ringed markings all down its body. He controlled the reptile with a small stick and then caught hold of it with his hand about a span's length below the head, whereupon it immediately turned round and bi...

Complex target SELEX always have been an intriguing approach to the scientific community, as it offers potential discovery of novel biomarkers. We herein successfully performed on Bungarus caeruleus venom develop a panel highly affine aptamers that specifically recognizes B. (common krait) and was able discriminate from Cobra, Russell's, Saw-scaled viper's venom. The generated against crude als...

Evolutionary relationships among the major elapid clades, particularly the taxonomic position of the partially aquatic sea kraits (Laticauda) and the fully aquatic true sea snakes have been the subject of much debate. To discriminate among existing phylogenetic and biogeographic hypotheses, portions of both the 16S rRNA and cytochrome b mitochondrial DNA genes were sequenced from 16 genera and ...