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Report of envenomation in humans by handling a dyeing poison frog Dendrobates tinctorius (SCHNEIDER, 1799) (Anura: Dendrobatidae) in the Amazon, Brazil

We report a case of envenomation by Dendrobates tinctorius in the northwest of the Amazon Forest. The patients were two men, who presented with numbness in the right arm and slight numbness in the lower lip, respectively. Dendrobates tinctorius secretions contain pumiliotoxin, one of several toxins...

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Autores principales: Corrêa, Bruno Alessandro Augusto Peña, de Sena, Vitor Matheus Alcântara, Matsushita, Rubens Hisanari, Citeli, Nathalie Kaladinsky
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical - SBMT 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7747814/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33338114
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0461-2020