Hifumi T, Taki H, Yamamoto A, et al. Update of antivenom supply for redback spider bites in Japan. J Intensive Care. 2015;3:7.Hifumi T, Taki H, Yamamoto A, Ato M, Koido Y, Kuroda Y. Update of antivenom supply for redback spider bites in Japan. J. Intensive Care 2015; 3: 7....
Whole venom rather than single zootoxins is preferred as the immunogenic stimulus because venoms are mixtures of many zootoxins. Antivenom primarily is prepared for medically significant scorpion, spider, and snake species (Table 8.5). Antivenom prepared against venomfrom a single species (i.e., a...
Delayed reactions (serum sickness) followed use of red-back spider antivenom in three patients, stonefish antivenom in two, and snake antivenoms in three. No reaction was life-threatening. Premedication was used in the majority of red-back spider bites and in 66 of 86 snake bites. Oral ...
In this article, we describe the case of a young girl bitten by a black spider whose evaluation was complicated by fulminant myocarditis, fortunately with a good prognosis. Our case study brings light to the various effects that toxins released from the black widow spider can have on the body...
Clinical treatment of confirmed brown recluse spider bites with dapsone and antivenom: Riley Rees, Douglas Campbell and Lloyd King Jr (Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Veterans Administration Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, U.S.A.)...
In a multicenter randomized placebo-controlled trial of redback spider antivenom for latrodectism, 224 patients (>7 years) with a redback spider bite and severe pain, with or without systemic effects, were randomized to receive normal saline solution (placebo) or antivenom after receiving ...
Spider bites of medical significance in the Mediterranean area: Misdiagnosis, clinical features and management 2020, Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins Including Tropical Diseases1 Giuseppe Di Paola and Marco Cirronis are co-first authors for this paper.View...
Medical aspects of spider bites. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 53, 409–429. CrossRef Vidal, N., 2002. Colubroid systematics: evidence for an early appearance of the venom apparatus followed by extensive evolutionary tinkering. J. Toxicol. Toxin Rev. 21, 21–41. CrossRef Wagstaff, S.C., ...
In vivo lethality studies assessing the neutralization capacity of several monoclonal IgGs have shown positive results for snake toxins (Charpentier et al., 1990; Frauches et al., 2013; Stiles et al., 1994), spider toxins (Alvarenga et al., 2003; Boulain et al., 1982), and scorpion ...
Update of antivenom supply for redback spider bites in Japan. J Intensive Care 2015;3:7Hifumi T, Taki H, Yamamoto A, Ato M, Koido Y, Kuroda Y: Update of antivenom supply for redback spider bites in Japan. J Intensive Care 2015; 3: 7. PMID:25705432, DOI:10.1186/s40560- 014-0070-3...