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A Case Report of Brown Recluse Spider Bite

Brown recluse spider is a spider of the genus Loxosceles and also known as violin spider or fiddle-back spider. Brown recluse spider is characterized by having six eyes, with a pair in front, a pair on both sides, and a gap between the pairs. The other spiders have eight eyes in two rows of four. Br...

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Autores principales: Abdelazeem, Basel, Eurick-Bering, Kianna, Ayad, Sarah, Malik, Bilal, Kalynych, Zirka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8384389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34458049
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16663
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author Abdelazeem, Basel
Eurick-Bering, Kianna
Ayad, Sarah
Malik, Bilal
Kalynych, Zirka
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description Brown recluse spider is a spider of the genus Loxosceles and also known as violin spider or fiddle-back spider. Brown recluse spider is characterized by having six eyes, with a pair in front, a pair on both sides, and a gap between the pairs. The other spiders have eight eyes in two rows of four. Brown recluse spider bites are challenging to verify but may be clinically diagnosed with consideration of geographic location, seasonality, and clinical characteristics. We present a case that involves a brown recluse spider bite in a 59-year-old female with malnutrition and polysubstance use who developed systemic symptoms and a dermonecrotic wound. Local wound care and intravenous (IV) antibiotics lead to clinical improvement by hospital day three, at which time the patient left against medical advice. The case highlights the challenges of diagnosing a brown recluse spider bites, particularly in a patient with multiple risk factors for necrotizing soft tissue infection. Furthermore, the present case represents one of the few case reports of a brown recluse spider bite in Michigan.
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spelling pubmed-83843892021-08-26 A Case Report of Brown Recluse Spider Bite Abdelazeem, Basel Eurick-Bering, Kianna Ayad, Sarah Malik, Bilal Kalynych, Zirka Cureus Dermatology Brown recluse spider is a spider of the genus Loxosceles and also known as violin spider or fiddle-back spider. Brown recluse spider is characterized by having six eyes, with a pair in front, a pair on both sides, and a gap between the pairs. The other spiders have eight eyes in two rows of four. Brown recluse spider bites are challenging to verify but may be clinically diagnosed with consideration of geographic location, seasonality, and clinical characteristics. We present a case that involves a brown recluse spider bite in a 59-year-old female with malnutrition and polysubstance use who developed systemic symptoms and a dermonecrotic wound. Local wound care and intravenous (IV) antibiotics lead to clinical improvement by hospital day three, at which time the patient left against medical advice. The case highlights the challenges of diagnosing a brown recluse spider bites, particularly in a patient with multiple risk factors for necrotizing soft tissue infection. Furthermore, the present case represents one of the few case reports of a brown recluse spider bite in Michigan. Cureus 2021-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8384389/ /pubmed/34458049 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16663 Text en Copyright © 2021, Abdelazeem et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8384389/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16663
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