ArticlePLoS neglected tropical diseases2022
A mechanistic model of snakebite as a zoonosis: Envenoming incidence is driven by snake ecology, socioeconomics and its impacts on snakes.
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- Snakebite-Associated Infections: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2024Pooled it
- Persistent spatial hotspots and socioeconomic inequalities of snakebite envenoming in Peru: A nationwide spatiotemporal analysis, 2010-2025.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Estimates of global burden of snakebite: A literature review and geostatistical modelling study.PLoS medicine · 2026Review
- Predictors and nomogram for amputation risk in pit viper snakebite envenoming at hospital admission.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Socioeconomic and ecological drivers of snakebite incidence in Mexico: A spatial analysis of risk factors.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- The incidence of snakebite in South Africa and the challenges associated with lack of reporting.Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2025Article
- Using a Machine Learning Approach to Predict Snakebite Envenoming Outcomes Among Patients Attending the Snakebite Treatment and Research Hospital in Kaltungo, Northeastern Nigeria.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025Article
- Effects of global change on snakebite envenoming incidence up to 2050: a modelling assessment.The Lancet. Planetary health · 2024Article
- Epidemiological and sociodemographic description of snakebite envenoming cases in Paraguay reported between 2015 and 2021.BMJ public health · 2024Article
- Snakebite prevalence and risk factors in a nomadic population in Samburu County, Kenya: A community-based survey.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Who are the most affected by Bothrops snakebite envenoming in Brazil? A Clinical-epidemiological profile study among the regions of the country.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2023Review
- Identification of Risk Areas forAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
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Abstract
Snakebite is the only WHO-listed, not infectious neglected tropical disease (NTD), although its eco-epidemiology is similar to that of zoonotic infections: envenoming occurs after a vertebrate host contacts a human. Accordingly, snakebite risk represents the interaction between snake and human factors, but their quantification has been limited by data availability. Models of infectious disease transmission are instrumental for the mitigation of NTDs and zoonoses. Here, we represented snake-human interactions with disease transmission models to approximate geospatial estimates of snakebite incidence in Sri Lanka, a global hotspot. Snakebites and envenomings are described by the product of snake and human abundance, mirroring directly transmitted zoonoses. We found that human-snake contact rates vary according to land cover (surrogate of occupation and socioeconomic status), the impacts of humans and climate on snake abundance, and by snake species. Our findings show that modelling snakebite as zoonosis provides a mechanistic eco-epidemiological basis to understand snakebites, and the possible implications of global environmental and demographic change for the burden of snakebite.
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