Commentary


Nature Biotechnology 25, 173 - 177 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nbt0207-173

Bringing antivenoms to Sub-Saharan Africa

Roberto P Stock1, Achille Massougbodji2, Alejandro Alagón1 & Jean-Philippe Chippaux3

  1. Roberto P. Stock and Alejandro Alagón are at the Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (IBt/UNAM) Av. Universidad 2001, Cuernavaca, Morelos 62210, Mexico
  2. Achille Massougbodji is at the Faculté des Sciences de la Santé, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin
  3. Jean-Philippe Chippaux is at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, La Paz, Bolivia. e-mail: rstock@ibt.unam.mx


To reduce unacceptably high death rates from snakebite envenomation, sub-Saharan Africa must adopt not only a new generation of multivalent biotech antivenoms, but also an infrastructure to deliver them.

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