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ReviewToxins2019

The Urgent Need to Develop Novel Strategies for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Snakebites.

Harry F Williams, Harry J Layfield, Thomas Vallance, Ketan Patel, Andrew B Bicknell, Steven A Trim, Sakthivel Vaiyapuri

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Review in Toxins, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
57citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
12.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

57 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 126 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Harry F WilliamsSchool of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AH, UK. h.f.williams@pgr.reading.ac.uk.
Harry J LayfieldSchool of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AH, UK. harrylayfield@gmail.com.
Thomas VallanceSchool of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AH, UK. t.m.vallance@pgr.reading.ac.uk.
Ketan PatelSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AH, UK. ketan.patel@reading.ac.uk.
Andrew B BicknellSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AH, UK. a.b.bicknell@reading.ac.uk.
Steven A TrimVenomtech Ltd, Discovery Park, Sandwich, Kent, UK. s.trim@venomtech.co.uk.
Sakthivel VaiyapuriSchool of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AH, UK. s.vaiyapuri@reading.ac.uk.
University of Reading · GB

Funding

British Heart Foundation FS/16/65/32489
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Snakebite envenoming (SBE) is a priority neglected tropical disease, which kills in excess of 100,000 people per year. Additionally, many millions of survivors also suffer through disabilities and long-term health consequences. The only treatment for SBE, antivenom, has a number of major associated problems, not least, adverse reactions and limited availability. This emphasises the necessity for urgent improvements to the management of this disease. Administration of antivenom is too frequently based on symptomatology, which results in wasting crucial time. The majority of SBE-affected regions rely on broad-spectrum polyvalent antivenoms that have a low content of case-specific efficacious immunoglobulins. Research into small molecular therapeutics such as varespladib/methyl-varespladib (PLA

Indexed as

AnimalsAntiveninsHumansReptilian ProteinsSnake BitesSnake VenomsAntiveninsReptilian ProteinsSnake Venomsdiagnosticsneglected tropical diseasesnakebite envenoming (SBE)therapeuticstoxin neutralisationvenom

Identifiers

PMID31226842
PMCPMC6628419
OpenAlexW2952620604

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Registered trials

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