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Comparative Study
A report of 49 cases of cnidarian envenoming from southeastern Brazilian coastal waters.
- Vidal Haddad, Fábio Lang da Silveira, João Luiz Costa Cardoso, and André Carrara Morandini.
- Departamento de Dermatologia, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Caixa Postal 557, 18618-000 Botucatu, SP, Brazil. haddadjr@uol.com.br
- Toxicon. 2002 Oct 1; 40 (10): 1445-50.
AbstractForty-nine accidents caused by jellyfish (Cnidaria) were observed during a period of 5 years on the southeastern coast of Brazil. Most of them involved male patients (65.3%), the injured areas being mainly the legs (71.3%) and the trunk (65.3%). Twenty accidents with Chiropsalmus quadrumanus, four with Physalia physalis and 20 with unidentified jellyfish presented intense pain, linear plaques and systemic symptoms. The five cases with Olindias sambaquiensis caused mild pain, round plaques and no systemic symptoms. There are a few reports on accidents caused by jellyfish, in this country, and scarce clinical or epidemiological data are available up to the present moment.Copyright 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd.
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