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Br Recluse 1 * |
This Brazilian patient presented 31 hours after having been bitten on his face by a Loxosceles spp. spider.
Spiders are mostly harmless to man, but two genera, the “Black Widow” spiders, Latrodectus spp., and the “Recluse” spiders, Loxosceles spp., inflict poisonous, proteolytic and hemolytic venomous bites. Note the periorbital facial swelling.
Content Providers(s): CDC/ M .A. Parsons/ Donated by Dr. G. Rosenfeld - head of Dept. of Physiopathology and Hospital Vital Brazil
Picture & text from CDC/PHIL. For more information see Brown Recluse Pictures from CDC