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Skin manifestations of tick bites in humans
Haddad Jr.,Vidal; Haddad,Michel Raineri; Santos,Mônica; Cardoso,João Luiz CostaAbstract: Ticks are blood-sucking arthropods that attach to human skin through oral devices causing diverse initial cutaneous manifestations, and may also transmit serious infectious diseases. In certain situations, the Health Teams (and especially dermatologists) may face difficulties in identifying the lesions and associating them to the parasites. To assist them in clinical diagnosis, we suggest a classifica...
Venomous and poisonous arthropods: identification, clinical manifestations of e...
Haddad Junior,Vidal; Amorim,Paulo Cezar Haddad de; Haddad Junior,William Teixeira; Cardoso,João Luiz CostaAbstract This review presents the main species of venomous and poisonous arthropods, with commentary on the clinical manifestations provoked by the toxins and therapeutic measures used to treat human envenomations. The groups of arthopods discussed include the class Arachnida (spiders and scorpions, which are responsible for many injuries reported worldwide, including Brazil); the subphylum Myriapoda, with the ...
Report of 15 injuries caused by lionfish (pterois volitans) in aquarists in Bra...
Haddad Jr,Vidal; Stolf,Hamilton Ometto; Risk,José Yamin; França,Francisco OS; Cardoso,João Luiz CostaAbstractLionfish are venomous fish that belong to the Scorpaenidae family. Individuals of this family and those of the Synanceiidae family comprise most of the existing venomous fish in the world. Lionfish are originally found in the Indo-Pacific, but they have received special attention in the last years for their dissemination in the Atlantic Ocean, with the emergence of large populations in the USA, Caribbea...
Injuries by marine and freshwater stingrays: history, clinical aspects of the e...
Junior,Vidal Haddad; Cardoso,João Luiz Costa; Neto,Domingos GarroneStingrays are a group of rays – cartilaginous fish related to sharks – that have whiplike tails with barbed, usually venomous spines and are found around the world, especially the marine species. Despite recent reports of accidents involving these fish, they are not aggressive, reacting only when stepped on or improperly handled. Injuries by stingrays are seldom mentioned by historians, although they have alway...
Envenoming caused by a Portuguese man-o'-war (Physalia physalis) manifesting as...
Risk,Yamin José; Cardoso,João Luiz Costa; Haddad Junior,VidalWe report the case of a 42-year old woman who was envenomed by a Portuguese man-o'-war (Physalia physalis). She presented an anomalous reaction manifested by purpuric papules that appeared after the initial phase of envenoming (around 24 hours later), when linear erythematous and edematous papules were observed. Late-onset reactions in accidents involving cnidarians commonly include chronic eruptions and local ...
Pigmentação exógena em pododáctilos simulando isquemia de extremidades: um desa...
Lima,Carlos Alberto Jatobá; Cardoso,João Luiz Costa; Magela,Antônio; Oliveira,Francisco G. M. de; Talhari,Sinésio; Haddad Junior,VidalUm paciente de 24 anos relatou ter pisado em um "piolho de cobra". Ao ser examinado, este apresentava máculas eritêmato-cianóticas, nos três primeiros pododáctilos do pé direito, com queixas de dor local e parestesias, com fluxos arteriais palpáveis. Os diplopodas são artrópodos cilíndricos segmentados que assumem posição enrodilhada - quando ameaçados - liberam quinonas e outros agentes irritativos e pigmentan...