Acute Myocarditis After Black Widow Spider Bite: A Case Report [PDF]
Cardiology and Therapy, 2020 The black widow spider (BWS) is a venomous spider whose bite can cause various clinical conditions that range from local damage to serious systemic complications, including death.
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Black widow spider bites experience from tertiary care center in Saudi Arabia [PDF]
Avicenna Journal of Medicine, 2017 Introduction: Black widow spiders are one of the most poisonous species to humans; there are more than 30 species of widow spiders in the globe but good thing that not all of them are dangerous.
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Reversible Myocarditis after Black Widow Spider Envenomation [PDF]
Case Reports in Medicine, 2012 Black widow spiders can cause variable clinical scenarios from local damage to very serious conditions including death. Acute myocardial damage is rarely observed and its prognostic significance is not known.
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Dieta de la viuda negra, Latrodectus mirabilis (Theridiidae) en dos cultivos de cereales del centro de Argentina [PDF]
, 2013 La araña Latrodectus mirabilis (Holmberg, 1876) se encuentra comúnmente en cultivos de cereales del centro de Argentina. Se estudió la composición de la dieta a campo y la tasa de captura sobre hormigas cortadoras negras a laboratorio.
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First report of brown widow spider sightings in Peninsular Malaysia and notes on its global distribution [PDF]
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2015 Background:The brown widow spider (Latrodectus geometricus Koch, 1841) has colonised many parts of the world from its continent of origin, Africa. By at least 1841, the species had successfully established populations in South America and has more ...
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Multi-tissue transcriptomics of the black widow spider reveals expansions, co-options, and functional processes of the silk gland gene toolkit. [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2014 Background: Spiders (Order Araneae) are essential predators in every terrestrial ecosystem largely because they have evolved potent arsenals of silk and venom.
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Fine structure of the intercalated disc and cardiac junctions in the black widow spider Latrodectus mactans [PDF]
Applied Microscopy, 2020 Arthropods have an open circulatory system with a simple tubular heart, so it has been estimated that the contractile pumping structure of the cardiac muscle will be less efficient than that of vertebrates.
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First Records of Black Widow Spider Latrodectus Walckenaer (Araneae: Theridiidae) in Oman
EntomoBrasilis, 2022 The present communication deals with a faunistic study on two species of Latrodectus Walckenaer with medically important issues from Oman. Several specimens of Latrodectus have been collected at various localities in Sultanate of Oman.
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Multimodal and multifunctional signaling? - Web reduction courtship behavior in a North American population of the false black widow spider. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 Fischer A +5 more
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Pyoderma gangrenosum and spider bites: a case series. [PDF]
J Dtsch Dermatol GesJDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, Volume 23, Issue 8, Page 997-999, August 2025.
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