Snakebites in the Central American Region: More Government Attention Required.

Eduardo Alberto Fernandez, Ivan Santiago Fernandez Funez

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Review in Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 authors.

Eduardo Alberto FernandezDepartment of Health Sciences, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada.

Ivan Santiago Fernandez FunezFaculty of Applied Health Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A review was conducted on snakebites in Central America. Information was extracted using the databases of PubMed, SciELO, and LILACS. Information included retrospective studies, case reports, and case series; in this way, valuable information was retrieved from limited sources. The identified studies comprised those discussing envenoming snakebites. Several species were identified, but three of them had major epidemiological features impacting envenoming by snakebites:

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Central Americaclinical manifestationsdemographicsElapidaeenvenominghealthcare accesssnakebitesViperidae

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PMID40864128

DOI10.3390/tropicalmed10080225

PMCPMC12390078

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