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Bothrops

Bothrops

a genus of poisonous snakes of the viperidae family. About 50 species are known and all are found in tropical america and southern south america. Bothrops atrox is the fer-de-lance and b. Jararaca is the jararaca. (goin, goin, and zug, introduction to herpetology, 3d ed, p336)


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... injecting mice: subcutaneous intravenous intramuscular intraperitoneal IV injections in bites are very rare, only large bitis or very large bothrops/crotalus can deliver intramuscular bites. The method that best emulates a human snake bite is subcutaneous. In these statements i refer to ...

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