VIII Conferencia BIREDIAL – ISTEC 2018. Del 22 al 25 de octubre de 2018. Organizado por la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Universidad de Costa Rica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Universidad del Rosario, Universidad del Norte, y el Consorcio Iberoamericano para la Educación en Ciencia y Tecnología (ISTEC). Lima Perú

Snakebite envenoming is a neglected public pathology, affecting especially rural communities or isolated areas of tropical and subtropical Latin American countries. The parenteral administration of antivenom is the mainstay and the only validated treatment of snake bite envenoming. Here, we assess the efficacy of polyspecific anti-Bothrops serum (α-BS) produced in the Instituto Nacional de Salud (INS, Peru) and at the Fundação Ezequiel Dias (FUNED, Brazil), to neutralize the main toxic activities induced by five medically-relevant venoms of: Bothrops atrox, B. barnetti, and B. pictus from Peru, and the Brazilian B. jararaca and B. leucurus, all of them inhabiting different geographical locations.