ArticleTropical medicine and infectious disease2026
On the Importance of Correct Snake Identification. Comment on Chippaux et al. Snakebites in Cameroon by Species Whose Effects Are Poorly Described.
Article in Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Reply to Wüster et al. On the Importance of Correct Snake Identification. Comment on "Chippaux et al. Snakebites in Cameroon by Species Whose Effects Are Poorly Described.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2026Article
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Abstract
One of the major obstacles to improving the management of snakebite envenoming is the lack of accurate identification of species responsible for clinical cases, which prevent the improvement of definitions of species-specific syndromes [...].
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