Latrodectism in Costa Rica
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Brown-widow spider, Latrodectus geometricus, lactrodectism, Costa RicaAbstract
We here report a case of human lactrodectism in Costa Rica, caused by the spider Latrodectus geometricus, included in the group known as ""black widows"". A 27 year-old woman was bitten by a Brown Widow spider in her home in Cartago city. She showed a moderately severe case with the following sequence of symptoms: an acute, intense local pain begins just after being bitten, and this irradiates to the entire affected limb, redness, increase in temperature around the bitten area, sweating and backache. At the cardiovascular level, she showed tachycardia and hypertension. The symptoms showed in this case are quite similar to those cases described for the Brown Widow spider and for other Black Widow spiders, in Central and South America.
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