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The emerging field of venom-microbiomics for exploring venom as a microenvironment, and the corresponding Initiative for Venom Associated Microbes and Parasites (iVAMP) [PDF]

, 2019
Venom is a known source of novel antimicrobial natural products. The substantial, increasing number of these discoveries have unintentionally culminated in the misconception that venom and venom-producing glands are largely sterile environments.
Adams, Rachelle M.M., Colston, Timothy J., Herzig, Volker, Keiser, Carl N., Moran, Yehu, Moschos, Sterghios, Nobile, Clarissa J., Petras, Daniel, Reitzel, Adam M., Rodríguez-Román, Eduardo, Saviola, Anthony J., Stiers, Erin E., Trim, Steven A., Ul-Hasan, Sabah   +13 more
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Spider bites of medical significance in the mediterranean area: misdiagnosis, clinical features and management [PDF]

, 2020
Despite the disrepute spiders have had for centuries, their bite is a rare occurrence. In the Mediterranean area, only two of the numerous known species are considered of medical significance: Latrodectus tredecimguttatus and Loxosceles rufescens. Spider
Bennardo, Luigi, Duca, Ester Del, Fusto, Gabriele, Mazzuca, Daniela, Nisticò, Steven Paul, Patruno, Cataldo, Tamburi, Federica   +6 more
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Presença de Loxosceles similis Moenkhaus, 1898 (Araneae, Sicariidae) na Serra da Bodoquena, Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil Presence of Loxosceles similis Moenkhaus, 1898 (Araneae, Sicariidae) in Bodoquena Range, State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2001
O veneno das aranhas do gênero Loxosceles causa lesão dermonecrótica e induz hemólise intravascular dependente de complemento, configurando um quadro clínico de intensa gravidade. No Brasil, as espécies L. gaucho L. intermedia e L.
Rute Maria Gonçalves de Andrade, Eunice Aparecida Bianchi Galati, Denise Vilarinho Tambourgi   +2 more
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Two new Brazilian species of Loxosceles Heinecken & Lowe, 1832 with remarks on amazonica and rufescens groups (Araneae, Sicariidae)

ZooKeys, 2017
The genus Loxosceles Heinecken & Lowe, 1832 has 91 representatives in the New World. Despite medical relevancy, the taxonomy of the genus is poorly understood.
Caroline Sayuri Fukushima, Rute Maria Gonçalves de Andrade, Rogério Bertani   +2 more
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Recombinant Protein Containing B-Cell Epitopes of Different Loxosceles Spider Toxins Generates Neutralizing Antibodies in Immunized Rabbits

Frontiers in Immunology, 2018
Loxoscelism is the most important form of araneism in South America. The treatment of these accidents uses heterologous antivenoms obtained from immunization of production animals with crude loxoscelic venom.
Sabrina de Almeida Lima, Clara Guerra-Duarte, Fernanda Costal-Oliveira, Thais Melo Mendes, Luís F. M. Figueiredo, Daysiane Oliveira, Ricardo A. Machado de Avila, Valéria Pereira Ferrer, Dilza Trevisan-Silva, Silvio S. Veiga, João C. Minozzo, Evanguedes Kalapothakis, Carlos Chávez-Olórtegui   +12 more
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Loxoscelismo dermonecrotico en bovinos

Revista Colombiana de Ciencia Animal Recia, 2020
Fueron atendidos por el Servicio Clínico Ambulatorio de Grandes Animales de la Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad de Córdoba, dos bovinos hembra, ambas de la raza Brahman, una novilla de 15 meses  y un peso de 150 Kg y una vaca de ...
José Alberto Cardona-Álvarez, Carlos José Lopez Galvis, Bernardo José Reyes-Bossa   +2 more
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Avaliação de células mesenquimais e dapsona para o tratamento de feridas dermonecróticas causadas pelo veneno de Loxosceles laeta em coelhos [PDF]

, 2022
This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of mesenchymal stem cells (MSC), alone or associated with dapsone (DAP), in treating dermonecrotic wounds caused by Loxosceles laeta venom. Twenty-five male rabbits were distributed into five groups.
Barreto, Maira Souza Oliveira, Bicalho, Adriane Pimenta Costa-Val, Botelho, Ana Flávia Machado, Cassali, Geovanni, Duarte, Clara Guerra, Gamba, Conrado, Goes, Alfredo Miranda de, Martins, Guilherme de Caro, Melo, Marília Martins, Olórtegui, Carlos Delfin Chávez, Soto-Blanco, Benito   +10 more
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Sphingomyelinase D activity in model membranes: structural effects of in situ generation of ceramide-1-phosphate. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
The toxicity of Loxosceles spider venom has been attributed to a rare enzyme, sphingomyelinase D, which transforms sphingomyelin to ceramide-1-phosphate. The bases of its inflammatory and dermonecrotic activity, however, remain unclear.
Roberto P Stock, Jonathan Brewer, Kerstin Wagner, Blanca Ramos-Cerrillo, Lars Duelund, Kit Drescher Jernshøj, Lars Folke Olsen, Luis A Bagatolli   +7 more
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Alien spiders: First record of Loxosceles gaucho Gertsch, 1967 (Araneae: Sicariidae) in the Amazon region, Brazil [PDF]

, 2019
We present the first record for Loxosceles gaucho Gertsch, 1967 in the Amazonian region of Brazil. Four males, fifteen females and forty-nine immatures were collected in different places in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
Almeida, Marlus Queiroz, Alves-Oliveira, João Rafael, Mendes, Diego Matheus de Mello, Morais, José Wellington de, Silva-Neto, Alberto Moreira da, Sobral, Rafael   +5 more
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Intradermal Anti-Loxosceles Fab Fragments Attenuate Dermonecrotic Arachnidism [PDF]

, 1999
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73371/1/j.1553-2712.1999.tb00133.x ...
Atkins J. A., Bravo M., Broaddus V. C., Butler V. P., Caveness W., Cole H. P., Coulter A. R., Folkesson H. G., Gomez H. F., Hobbs G. D., Lloyd B. L., Meyer W. P., Miller M., Patel K. D., Rampart M., Rees R. S., Smith J. A., Smith T. W., Svendsen F. J., Valentine J. L., Wasserman G. S., Woolf A. D.   +21 more
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