Envenomation by the red-tailed coral snake (Micrurus mipartitus) in Colombia

BACKGROUND: Although the red-tailed coral snake (Micrurus mipartitus) is widely distributed in Colombia and its venom is highly neurotoxic and life threatening, envenomation by this species is rare. Therefore, this report may shed some light on the clinical presentation of M. mipartitus bites. CASE...

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Autores principales: Cañas, Carlos A., Castro-Herrera, Fernando, Castaño-Valencia, Santiago
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5307858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28228775
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40409-017-0100-4
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author Cañas, Carlos A.
Castro-Herrera, Fernando
Castaño-Valencia, Santiago
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description BACKGROUND: Although the red-tailed coral snake (Micrurus mipartitus) is widely distributed in Colombia and its venom is highly neurotoxic and life threatening, envenomation by this species is rare. Therefore, this report may shed some light on the clinical presentation of M. mipartitus bites. CASE PRESENTATIONS: Herein, we describe two cases of patients bitten by red-tailed coral snakes, illustrating the clinical presentation of the victims, the outcomes and treatment provided. CONCLUSION: Envenomation caused by M. mipartitus provokes predicable neurotoxicity, and its treatment should be based on respiratory support and use of specific antivenom.
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spelling pubmed-53078582017-02-22 Envenomation by the red-tailed coral snake (Micrurus mipartitus) in Colombia Cañas, Carlos A. Castro-Herrera, Fernando Castaño-Valencia, Santiago J Venom Anim Toxins Incl Trop Dis Case Report BACKGROUND: Although the red-tailed coral snake (Micrurus mipartitus) is widely distributed in Colombia and its venom is highly neurotoxic and life threatening, envenomation by this species is rare. Therefore, this report may shed some light on the clinical presentation of M. mipartitus bites. CASE PRESENTATIONS: Herein, we describe two cases of patients bitten by red-tailed coral snakes, illustrating the clinical presentation of the victims, the outcomes and treatment provided. CONCLUSION: Envenomation caused by M. mipartitus provokes predicable neurotoxicity, and its treatment should be based on respiratory support and use of specific antivenom. BioMed Central 2017-02-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5307858/ /pubmed/28228775 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40409-017-0100-4 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Cañas, Carlos A.
Castro-Herrera, Fernando
Castaño-Valencia, Santiago
Envenomation by the red-tailed coral snake (Micrurus mipartitus) in Colombia
title Envenomation by the red-tailed coral snake (Micrurus mipartitus) in Colombia
title_full Envenomation by the red-tailed coral snake (Micrurus mipartitus) in Colombia
title_fullStr Envenomation by the red-tailed coral snake (Micrurus mipartitus) in Colombia
title_full_unstemmed Envenomation by the red-tailed coral snake (Micrurus mipartitus) in Colombia
title_short Envenomation by the red-tailed coral snake (Micrurus mipartitus) in Colombia
title_sort envenomation by the red-tailed coral snake (micrurus mipartitus) in colombia
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5307858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28228775
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40409-017-0100-4
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