Correction to: BMC Emerg Med (2019) 19: 26
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-019-0239-0
The authors have retracted this case report [1] because the head of the snake shown in Figure 1 and described as being that of a viper (Echis occellatus) is identical to the head of a snake shown in Figure 1 of a different case report [2] where it was identified as being Naja melanoleuca, a member of the Elapidae family. The authors do not have records of the manufacturer and batch numbers of the 3 vials of anti-venom serum administered to the patient in [1]. All authors agree with this retraction.
References
Esiéné A, Etoundi PO, Tochie JN, et al. Severe Viperidae envenomation complicated by a state of shock, acute kidney injury, and gangrene presenting late at the emergency department: a case report. BMC Emerg Med. 2019;19:26 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-019-0239-0.
Tianyi F, Agbor VN, Tochie JN, et al. Community-based audits of snake envenomations in a resource-challenged setting of Cameroon: case series. BMC Res Notes. 2018;11:317 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3409-3.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
About this article
Cite this article
Esiéné, A., Etoundi, P.O., Tochie, J.N. et al. Retraction Note: Severe Viperidae envenomation complicated by a state of shock, acute kidney injury, and gangrene presenting late at the emergency department: a case report. BMC Emerg Med 20, 23 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-020-00318-x
Published:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-020-00318-x