CaiI, Pengfei; Weerakoon, Kosala G.; Mu, Yi; Olveda, Remigio M.; Ross, Allen G.; Olveda, David U.; McManus, Donald P.(Department of Pathology, JONELTA Foundation School of Medicine, University of Perpetual Help Rizal, Manila, Philippine, 2019-03-04)
Background: Melioidosis is a potentially fatal bacterial infection caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei. The existence
of melioidosis in Sri Lanka was once unheard of, and entertaining it as a diagnosis in clinical practice ...
Delays in treatment seeking and antivenom administration remain problematic for snake
envenoming. We aimed to describe the treatment seeking pattern and delays in admission
to hospital and administration of antivenom in ...
Coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus) envenoming causes life-threatening neuromuscular
paralysis in humans. We studied the time period during which antivenom remains effective in
preventing and arresting in vitro ...
Blood-bellied coral snake (Calliophis haematoetron) is a recently discovered forest-dwelling species of ela pid hitherto known from 3 specimens found from central Sri Lanka. Herein we describe the first authenti cated case ...
Venom-induced consumption coagulopathy is the most important systemic effect of snake
envenoming. Coagulation tests are helpful to accurately and promptly diagnose venom-induced
consumption coagulopathy and administer ...
Intra-specific venom variation has the potential to provide important insights into the
evolution of snake venom, but remains a relatively neglected aspect of snake venom studies.
We investigated the venom from 13 ...