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Abstract A case of a bite inflicted by Oxybelis fulgidus in the wilds of Amazon is reported. The patient was a 67-year-old man who presented with dizziness, tachycardia and local pain, with erythema and bleeding in his left arm. The venom of Oxybelis fulgidus, a neotropical rear-fanged snake, contains one of the four three-finger toxins already isolated from colubrid snakes, called fulgimotoxin. He was treated with oral analgesics and returned to the ambulatory in 48 hours, with good evolution. We report tirst authenticated case of adult Oxybelis fulgidus with signs of mild local envenoming without evidence of systemic envenoming.
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Humans , Animals , Male , Aged , Snake Bites/complications , Snake Venoms/poisoning , Colubridae/classification , Edema/etiology , BrazilABSTRACT
Haplometroides buccicola (Trematoda, Digenea, Plagiorchiidae) was reported in the mouth and oesophagus of Phalotris lativittatus (Serpentes, Colubridae) from Botucatu, São Paulo State, Brazil. This is the first report on the occurrence of H. buccicola parasitizing P. lativittatus. The Haplometroides genus was also discussed and the most important morphological characters for the identification of the species H. buccicola and H. odhneri are presented
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Animals , Brazil/epidemiology , Colubridae/classification , Trematode Infections/classificationABSTRACT
Uma nova espécie de Sibynomorphus é descrita com base em material proveniente das províncias argentinas de Jujuy, Salta, Chaco e Formosa e do Paraguay. Sibynomorphus lavillai sp. nov. é caracterizado pela presença de manchas sobre todo o corpo que alcançam a primeira fileira de escamas; estas manchas säo mais largas ou iguais ao inter-espaço anteriormente e mais estreitas posteriormente; pela fileira vertebral moderadamente alargada; pelo processo palatino estendendo-se até a extremidade anterior do maxilar e por ter de 47 a 61 subcaudais