摘要:Author Jean-Philippe Chippaux UMR 216, Institut de recherche pour le développement, 089 BP 841, Cotonou, Benin Key words: envenomation, snake, children, antivenom, Maroc DOI : 10.1684/mst.2014.0296 Page(s) : 111 Published in: 2014 The author stresses the importance of the specificity of immunotherapy and identifies the two appropriate antivenoms for North Africa and the Middle East in general, and Morocco in particular. Due to the very good tolerance of new generation antivenoms, the author recommends systematically administer antivenom as early as possible to avoid unfavorable clinical progression, particularly in children and pregnant women..