Daniela Regina Buch, Fernanda Nunes Souza, Gabriel Otto Meissner, Adriano Marcelo Morgon, Luiza Helena Gremski, Valéria Pereira Ferrer, Dilza Trevisan-Silva, Fernando Hitomi Matsubara, Mariana Boia-Ferreira, Youssef Bacila Sade, Daniele Chaves-Moreira, Waldemiro Gremski, Silvio Sanches Veiga, Olga Meiri Chaim, Andrea Senff-Ribeiro
Loxosceles spiders are responsible for serious human envenomations worldwide. The collection of symptoms found in victims after accidents is called loxoscelism and is characterized by two clinical conditions: cutaneous loxoscelism and systemic loxocelism. The only specific treatment is serum therapy, in which an antiserum produced with Loxosceles venom is administered to the victims after spider accidents. Our aim was to improve our knowledge, regarding the immunological relationship among toxins from the most epidemiologic important species in Brazil (Loxosceles intermedia, Loxosceles gaucho and Loxosceles laeta)...
December 15, 2015: Toxicon: Official Journal of the International Society on Toxinology