A case report of human intoxication due to a snakebiteby the opisthoglyphous dipsadid Thamnodynastes laneiBailey, Thomas & Silva-Jr, 2005

Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical. Revista

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Pedro Henrique Salomão Ganança¹  Rafael de Fraga²  Lourival Baía de Vasconcelos Neto¹  Alfredo Pedroso dos Santos Júnior¹ 

[1] Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Instituto de Ciências da Educação, Laboratório de Ecologia e Comportamento Animal, Brasil.Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologia das Águas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade;Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Instituto de Ciências da Educação, Laboratório de Ecologia e Comportamento Animal, Brasil.Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Recursos Naturais da Amazônia

关键词: Amazonia;    Public health;    Tropical disease;   

DOI  :  10.1590/0037-8682-0194-2020

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

来源: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

【 摘 要 】

We present a case of human intoxication due to a snakebite by the opisthoglyphous dipsadid Thamnodynastes lanei. A 26-year-old man was bitten on the right hand and was not medicated. Bleeding lasted a few seconds, while paresthesia, chills, and headache persisted for up to 10 hours. The pain disappeared after a week, and the edema, itching, and prickling persisted for another 3 days. Although this patient’s symptoms were typical of bites by South American opisthoglyphous snakes, they persisted longer than those of bites by some congeneric species. Our report adds a species to the list of medically relevant snakes.

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