Reversible Myocarditis Following Black Widow Spider (Latrodectus spp.) Bite in Egypt: A case report. [PDF]
Sultan Qaboos Univ Med J, 2023 Black widow spiders (BWSs) are poisonous spiders of the Arthropoda phylum that live in the Mediterranean region. The effects of BWS bites ranges from local damage to systemic manifestations including paresthesia, stiffness, abdominal cramps, nausea ...
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Black widow spider (Latrodectus renivulatus) envenomation in children in Saudi Arabia: a case series
Toxicology Communications, 2023 Black widow spider (Latrodectus renivulatus) envenomation is a toxicological emergency affecting Middle Eastern countries. Young children may experience greater morbidity due to their small size relative to the amount of venom delivered. We describe four
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Reversible Myocarditis and Pericarditis after Black Widow Spider Bite or Kounis Syndrome? [PDF]
Case Reports in Cardiology, 2015 Clinical manifestation of black widow spider bite is variable and occasionally leads to death in rural areas. Cases of myocarditis and pericarditis after black widow spider bite are rare and the associated prognostic significance is unknown.
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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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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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Ecdysteroid responses to urban heat island conditions during development of the western black widow spider (Latrodectus hesperus). [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 The steroid hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) controls molting in arthropods. The timing of 20E production, and subsequent developmental transitions, is influenced by a variety of environmental factors including nutrition, photoperiod, and temperature ...
Moen C, Johnson JC, Hackney Price J.
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Black Widow Spider Envenomation and Cardiovascular Complications. [PDF]
CureusEnvenomation (latrodectism) with black widow spider (BWS) venom can cause dysfunction in the cardiovascular system. The pathophysiology and consequences of cardiovascular effects have not been fully elucidated.
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Backyard Proteomics: A Case Study with the Black Widow Spider. [PDF]
J Proteome ResNearly all methods of mass spectrometry-based proteomics rely on knowing the proteome of the species. In less studied organisms without annotated genomes, it can seem impossible to perform proteomic analysis.
Shah T, Fitzpatrick JA, Orsburn BC.
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Acute myocardial injury caused by black widow spider (Latrodectus) bite. [PDF]
Eur Heart J Case Rep, 2020 A 40-year-old male presented to the emergency department due to multiple black widow spider bites mainly located in the abdominal and lumbar area ( Figure 1 ).
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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 Males of widow spiders courting on the web of females engage in web-reduction behavior which entails excising a section of the web, bundling it up, and wrapping it with their silk.
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