Members of the genus Protobothrops are amongst the more than twenty-eight range-restricted Indian pit viper species. Their bites and envenomings are rarely documented from India. Pit viper envenomings can be challenging to treat in the Indian setting, since available antivenoms do not satisfactorily neutralize their venoms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a high burden disease in India. Nutrition plays a pivotal role in holistic recovery of the same.
Methods: Patients with sputum positive pulmonary TB were consecutively recruited into the study aimed to observe the incidence of under nutrition and anergy purified protein derivative (PPD).
India is home to a diverse spectrum of medically-significant snakes accounting for one of the world's largest burdens of envenoming, morbidity and mortality. Indian polyspecific antivenom is derived from the venom of four snake species (Daboia russelii, Echis carinatus, Naja naja and Bungarus caeruleus), considered to be responsible for the majority of snakebite morbidity and mortality in India. The treatment of envenoming from other less-commonly encountered venomous snake species can be challenging.
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