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| Author(s): |
Rute Maria Gonçalves de Andrade
[1]
;
Eunice Aparecida Bianchi Galati
[2]
;
Denise Vilarinho Tambourgi
[3]
Total Authors: 3
|
| Affiliation: | [1] Instituto Butantan. Laboratório de Imunoquímica - Brasil
[2] Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Saúde Pública. Departamento de Epidemiologia
[3] Instituto Butantan. Laboratório de Imunoquímica - Brasil
Total Affiliations: 3
|
| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical; v. 34, n. 3, p. 275-277, 2001-06-00. |
| Abstract | |
The venom of Loxosceles spiders causes dermonecrotic lesion and induces complement-dependent intravascular haemolysis that characterizes a severe systemic effect. In Brazil, L. gaucho, L. intermedia and L. laeta, present in the anthropic environment, have been pointed out as the most important agents of the loxoscelism. Besides these species there are others that, by predominating in the natural environment, have not been evaluated regarding human health risk, as in the case of Loxosceles similis. The development of a research project in Bodoquena Range, for ecological observation and identification of insects of medical interest, enabled the capture of Loxosceles similis specimens in the "Pitangueiras" cave and "Lago Azul" cave, in Bodoquena Range, municipality of Bonito, State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. The objectives of this study were to define the parameters for identification, environmental features of the habitat of this species, as well as an update of its geographical distribution. (AU) | |