Volume 26, Issue 130, December 2022

The wolf in the skin of krait: The innocent Indian wolf snake, a case series

Govind Nagdev^1♦, Gajanan Chavan¹, Gaurav Sahu², kuldeep chhatbar³

¹Department of Emergency Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be Universtiy), Wardha, India
²Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be Universtiy), Wardha, India
³Department of Orthopedics, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be Universtiy), Wardha, India

^♦Corresponding author
Department of Emergency Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be Universtiy) Wardha, Maharashtra, India

ABSTRACT

Snakebite is a time-limiting, acute dreadful medical emergency. It is a preventable public health hazard often faced by rural populations in tropical and subtropical countries with heavy rainfall and humid climate. A new species of snake i.e Wolf snake (Lycodon) which morphologically as well as clinically, closely resembles Common Krait has been identified. We here discuss 2 cases of snake bite which were presented to our emergency department creating a diagnostic dilemma between Common Krait and Wolf Snake

Keywords: Wolf Snake, Lycodon species, Common Krait, Colubrids, Antisnake venom (ASV)

Medical Science, 2022, 26, ms557e2644

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v26i130/ms557e2644

Published: 23 December 2022