Tarantula Bite in Iran, a Letter to the Editor
<p>I read with great interest the case report titled “Periumbilical pain with radiation to both legs following tarantula bite; a case report” published in Emergency journal. Tarantula spiders are not medically important except for some very limited species, which do not exist in Iran. Solifuga...
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Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
2016-08-01
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| description | <p>I read with great interest the case report titled “Periumbilical pain with radiation to both legs following tarantula bite; a case report” published in Emergency journal. Tarantula spiders are not medically important except for some very limited species, which do not exist in Iran. Solifugae -or <em>rotails</em> as they are called in Iran- are in fact another group of animals also called camel spiders (Figure 2). They are also venom-free and generally cause secondary infections in the site of their bites. Thus, it seems that the patient's signs and symptoms cannot be due to the rotail or tarantula bites.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-60f5a0df6f4b4d27ae35539b4dbea94e2022-12-22T01:34:16ZengShahid Beheshti University of Medical SciencesEmergency2345-45632345-45712016-08-01441691706171Tarantula Bite in Iran, a Letter to the EditorHossein Sanaei Zadeh0Medical School, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Emergency Room/Division of Medical Toxicology, Hazrat Ali-Asghar (p) Hospital, Meshkinfam Street, 7143918796 Shiraz, Iran<p>I read with great interest the case report titled “Periumbilical pain with radiation to both legs following tarantula bite; a case report” published in Emergency journal. Tarantula spiders are not medically important except for some very limited species, which do not exist in Iran. Solifugae -or <em>rotails</em> as they are called in Iran- are in fact another group of animals also called camel spiders (Figure 2). They are also venom-free and generally cause secondary infections in the site of their bites. Thus, it seems that the patient's signs and symptoms cannot be due to the rotail or tarantula bites.</p>http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/emergency/article/view/10339TarantulabiteIran |
| spellingShingle | Hossein Sanaei Zadeh Tarantula Bite in Iran, a Letter to the Editor Emergency Tarantula bite Iran |
| title | Tarantula Bite in Iran, a Letter to the Editor |
| title_full | Tarantula Bite in Iran, a Letter to the Editor |
| title_fullStr | Tarantula Bite in Iran, a Letter to the Editor |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tarantula Bite in Iran, a Letter to the Editor |
| title_short | Tarantula Bite in Iran, a Letter to the Editor |
| title_sort | tarantula bite in iran a letter to the editor |
| topic | Tarantula bite Iran |
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