New approaches and technologies of venomics to meet the challenge of human envenoming by snakebites in India.
The direct estimate of 46,000 snakebite deaths in India in 2005 (1 for every 2 HIV/AIDS deaths), based on verbal autopsies, renders unrealistic the total of only 47,000 snakebite deaths in the whole world in 2010, obtained indirectly as part of the "Global Burden of Disease 2010" study. Pe...
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| author | Warrell, D Gutiérrez, J Calvete, J Williams, D |
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| description | The direct estimate of 46,000 snakebite deaths in India in 2005 (1 for every 2 HIV/AIDS deaths), based on verbal autopsies, renders unrealistic the total of only 47,000 snakebite deaths in the whole world in 2010, obtained indirectly as part of the "Global Burden of Disease 2010" study. Persistent underestimation of its true morbidity and mortality has made snakebite the most neglected of all the WHO's "neglected tropical diseases", downgrading its public health importance. Strategies to address this neglect should include the improvement of antivenom, the only specific antidote to envenoming. To accommodate increased understanding of geographical intraspecific variation in venom composition and the range of snake species that are medically important in India, the design of antivenoms (choice of venom sources and species coverage) should be reconsidered. Methods of preclinical and clinical testing should be improved. The relatively new science of venomics involves techniques and strategies for assessing the toxin composition of snake venoms directly through proteomics-centred approaches or indirectly via high-throughput venom gland transcriptomics and bioinformatic analysis. Antivenomics is translational venomics: a proteomics-based protocol to quantify the extent of cross-reactivity of antivenoms against homologous and heterologous venoms. These approaches could revolutionize the preclinical assessment of antivenom efficacy, leading to a new generation of antivenoms that are clinically more effective. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:8836c0c6-9d77-469c-bd1b-f9777d2f9b502022-03-26T22:15:39ZNew approaches and technologies of venomics to meet the challenge of human envenoming by snakebites in India.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:8836c0c6-9d77-469c-bd1b-f9777d2f9b50EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2013Warrell, DGutiérrez, JCalvete, JWilliams, DThe direct estimate of 46,000 snakebite deaths in India in 2005 (1 for every 2 HIV/AIDS deaths), based on verbal autopsies, renders unrealistic the total of only 47,000 snakebite deaths in the whole world in 2010, obtained indirectly as part of the "Global Burden of Disease 2010" study. Persistent underestimation of its true morbidity and mortality has made snakebite the most neglected of all the WHO's "neglected tropical diseases", downgrading its public health importance. Strategies to address this neglect should include the improvement of antivenom, the only specific antidote to envenoming. To accommodate increased understanding of geographical intraspecific variation in venom composition and the range of snake species that are medically important in India, the design of antivenoms (choice of venom sources and species coverage) should be reconsidered. Methods of preclinical and clinical testing should be improved. The relatively new science of venomics involves techniques and strategies for assessing the toxin composition of snake venoms directly through proteomics-centred approaches or indirectly via high-throughput venom gland transcriptomics and bioinformatic analysis. Antivenomics is translational venomics: a proteomics-based protocol to quantify the extent of cross-reactivity of antivenoms against homologous and heterologous venoms. These approaches could revolutionize the preclinical assessment of antivenom efficacy, leading to a new generation of antivenoms that are clinically more effective. |
| spellingShingle | Warrell, D Gutiérrez, J Calvete, J Williams, D New approaches and technologies of venomics to meet the challenge of human envenoming by snakebites in India. |
| title | New approaches and technologies of venomics to meet the challenge of human envenoming by snakebites in India. |
| title_full | New approaches and technologies of venomics to meet the challenge of human envenoming by snakebites in India. |
| title_fullStr | New approaches and technologies of venomics to meet the challenge of human envenoming by snakebites in India. |
| title_full_unstemmed | New approaches and technologies of venomics to meet the challenge of human envenoming by snakebites in India. |
| title_short | New approaches and technologies of venomics to meet the challenge of human envenoming by snakebites in India. |
| title_sort | new approaches and technologies of venomics to meet the challenge of human envenoming by snakebites in india |
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