| Weed HG, 1993, USA | 72 consecutive children and adults with non-envenomated snake wounds calling a poisons centre. | Observational | Presence of wound infection | No wound infection identified | 14% applied topical antibiotics
No definition of wound infection
No control group |
| None of the patients received antibiotics | |
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| Blaylock RS, 1999, South Africa | 363 patients presenting with snake bites—both venomous (88%) and non-venomous (12%)
Antibiotics given if necrosis present (15.2%) | Observational | Presence of wound infection | No infections in patients not given antibiotics | Not randomised
Antibiotics given on clinical grounds (presence of necrosis)
Very little raw result data provided |