Agkistrodon
"Agkistrodon" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A genus of venomous snakes of the subfamily Crotalinae. Twelve species of this genus are found in North and Central America and Asia. Agkistrodon contortrix is the copperhead, A. piscivorus, the cottonmouth. The former is named for its russet or orange-brown color, the latter for the white interior of its mouth. (Goin, Goin, and Zug, Introduction to Herpetology, 3d ed, p336; Moore, Poisonous Snakes of the World, 1980, p75)
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D017836
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.833.672.875.120
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| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Agkistrodon" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Mullins ME, Nguyen KR, Filip AB, Liss DB, Baumgartner KT. Comments on "Comparing cost of F(ab')2AV vs FabAV in the treatment of copperhead envenomation". Am J Emerg Med. 2024 Feb; 76:238-239.
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Irion VH, Barnes J, Montgomery BE, Suva LJ, Montgomery CO. Presentation and Management of Venomous Snakebites: Should All Patients Be Transferred to a Tertiary Referral Hospital? J Surg Orthop Adv. 2016; 25(2):69-73.