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Taipan Antivenom

This equine IgG Fab is the definitive treatment of envenoming by taipans in Australia and Papua New Guinea. These include the coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus), the Papuan taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus canni) and the small-scaled or fierce snake (Oxyuranus microlepidotus).

References

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  • Isbister GK, Brown SG, MacDonald E et al. Current use of Australian snake antivenoms and frequency of immediate-type hypersensitivity reactions and anaphylaxis.  Medical Journal of Australia 2008; 188:473-476.
  • Isbister GK, Duffull SB, Brown SGA. Failure of antivenom to improve recovery in Australian snakebite coagulopathy. Quarterly Journal of Medicine 2009.
  • White J.  CSL Antivenom Handbook 2001.  CSL Ltd: Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria.

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