Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Toxinology, Women's and Children's Hospital , North Adelaide, SA , Australia
Clin Toxicol (Phila), 2014 Apr;52(4):277-82.
PMID: 24645905 DOI: 10.3109/15563650.2014.897352

Abstract

Non-front-fanged colubroid snakes (NFFC; formerly and artificially taxonomically assembled as "colubrids") comprise the majority of extant ophidian species. Although the medical risks of bites by a handful of species have been documented, the majority of these snakes have oral products (Duvernoy's secretions, or venoms) with unknown biomedical properties/unverified functions and their potential for causing harm in humans is unknown.

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