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Provedor de dados: | Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins Including Tropical Diseases
País: | Brazil
Título: | Envenomation caused by Rhopalurus amazonicus Lourenço, 1986 (Scorpiones, Buthidae) in Pará State, Brazil
Autores: | Fuentes-Silva,Deyanira; Santos Jr,Alfredo P; Oliveira,Joacir Stolarz.
Data: | 2014-01-01
Ano: | 2014
Palavras-chave: | Scorpion sting; Rhopalurus amazonicus; Venomous animals; Envenomation; Brazilian Amazon; Pará.
Resumo: | Scorpions, mainly those belonging to the genus Tityus cause many deaths and injuries in Brazil, with tens of thousands of envenomations notified every year. However, injuries involving other scorpion species are scarcely registered. Among the sixteen species of the genus Rhopalurus, Thorell, 1876, described up to date, nine are found in this country, with only a confirmed case of human envenomation provoked by R. agamemnonKoch, 1839. The present case reports, for the first time, a case of scorpion sting in a human victim involving Rhopalurus amazonicus, endemic species of the west region of the Pará state, Amazon, Brazil. The symptoms of envenomation were local pain and paresthesia. This study contributes to develop the knowledge on venomous scorpions, particularly those that may cause envenomations in this region.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/report
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1678-91992014000200509
Editor: | Centro de Estudos de Venenos e Animais Peçonhentos
Relação: | 10.1186/1678-9199-20-52
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases  v.20 2014
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess