2009
DOI: 10.1590/s1678-91992009000400005
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Abstract: ABSTRACT:The present work aims to find the epidemiological profile of snakebites in Morocco through a retrospective study of 1,423 snakebite cases that occurred between 1992 and 2007. Data were obtained from medical charts of envenomation at the Poison Control and Pharmacovigilance Center of Morocco. Results revealed that 86% of the snakebites had occurred in rural areas and that males were significantly more affected than females at a sex ratio of 23:20. Furthermore, 35% of the bites happened during the summe… Show more

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“…This finding is in agreement with previous results carried on snake bites in Saudi Arabia (Al-Sadoon and Jarrar,1994;AlDurihim et al, 2010;Mahaba, 2000;Al-Mohareb and AlSadoon, 1994) and with other studies in different countries such as Brazil where 89.5% of the patients were males (Franco et al, 2001); southeast of Arabian peninsula where the majority (87%) were male farmers (Al-Kaabi et al, 2011); Morocco where 53% were males (Arfaoui et al, 2009) and the snake bite patients were males (96%) in Isfahan province, Iran (Dehghani et al, 2014a,b). Snake bites in males outnumbered females in the present investigation.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 92%
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“…This finding is in agreement with previous results carried on snake bites in Saudi Arabia (Al-Sadoon and Jarrar,1994;AlDurihim et al, 2010;Mahaba, 2000;Al-Mohareb and AlSadoon, 1994) and with other studies in different countries such as Brazil where 89.5% of the patients were males (Franco et al, 2001); southeast of Arabian peninsula where the majority (87%) were male farmers (Al-Kaabi et al, 2011); Morocco where 53% were males (Arfaoui et al, 2009) and the snake bite patients were males (96%) in Isfahan province, Iran (Dehghani et al, 2014a,b). Snake bites in males outnumbered females in the present investigation.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 92%
“…The highest incidence of snake bites was more frequent during the summer months (May through September) with a maximum frequency in August. This result corroborates some studies in other regions of Saudi Arabia (Al-Sadoon and Jarrar,1994;Al-Kaabi et al, 2011) and in Morocco (Arfaoui et al, 2009) but differs from other studies (Tchoua et al, 2002;Paula Neto et al, 2005;Pacheco and Zorte´a, 2008) in which snake bites were reported between November and April.…”
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confidence: 91%
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“…It is estimated that 2,500,000 accidents with venomous snakes occur annually in the world; approximately 125,000 are lethal (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9).…”
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confidence: 99%