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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Case Report
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
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author Corrêa, Bruno Alessandro Augusto Peña
de Sena, Vitor Matheus Alcântara
Matsushita, Rubens Hisanari
Citeli, Nathalie Kaladinsky
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description 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 found in the dendrobatidis skin, which interferes with muscle contraction and causes locomotor difficulties. Although Dendrobatidae is a family of anurans known for their venom, few studies describe the symptoms of envenomation in humans.
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spelling pubmed-77478142020-12-22 Report of envenomation in humans by handling a dyeing poison frog Dendrobates tinctorius (SCHNEIDER, 1799) (Anura: Dendrobatidae) in the Amazon, Brazil Corrêa, Bruno Alessandro Augusto Peña de Sena, Vitor Matheus Alcântara Matsushita, Rubens Hisanari Citeli, Nathalie Kaladinsky Rev Soc Bras Med Trop Case Report 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 found in the dendrobatidis skin, which interferes with muscle contraction and causes locomotor difficulties. Although Dendrobatidae is a family of anurans known for their venom, few studies describe the symptoms of envenomation in humans. Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical - SBMT 2020-12-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7747814/ /pubmed/33338114 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0461-2020 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
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Corrêa, Bruno Alessandro Augusto Peña
de Sena, Vitor Matheus Alcântara
Matsushita, Rubens Hisanari
Citeli, Nathalie Kaladinsky
Report of envenomation in humans by handling a dyeing poison frog Dendrobates tinctorius (SCHNEIDER, 1799) (Anura: Dendrobatidae) in the Amazon, Brazil
title Report of envenomation in humans by handling a dyeing poison frog Dendrobates tinctorius (SCHNEIDER, 1799) (Anura: Dendrobatidae) in the Amazon, Brazil
title_full Report of envenomation in humans by handling a dyeing poison frog Dendrobates tinctorius (SCHNEIDER, 1799) (Anura: Dendrobatidae) in the Amazon, Brazil
title_fullStr Report of envenomation in humans by handling a dyeing poison frog Dendrobates tinctorius (SCHNEIDER, 1799) (Anura: Dendrobatidae) in the Amazon, Brazil
title_full_unstemmed Report of envenomation in humans by handling a dyeing poison frog Dendrobates tinctorius (SCHNEIDER, 1799) (Anura: Dendrobatidae) in the Amazon, Brazil
title_short Report of envenomation in humans by handling a dyeing poison frog Dendrobates tinctorius (SCHNEIDER, 1799) (Anura: Dendrobatidae) in the Amazon, Brazil
title_sort report of envenomation in humans by handling a dyeing poison frog dendrobates tinctorius (schneider, 1799) (anura: dendrobatidae) in the amazon, brazil
topic Case Report
url 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
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