Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is well known as a nosocomial (healthcare acquired) pathogen. However, since the 1990s, MRSA has been increasingly recognized as a community pathogen. Community associated MRSA (CAMRSA) is distinguished from healthcare associated MRSA (HAMRSA) by clinical and molecular characteristics—HAMRSA is associated with invasive disease (pneumonia, blood...

The clinical manifestations of a recluse spider bite range from local erythema to necrotic skin reactions; bites rarely lead systemic disease known as viscerocutaneous loxoscelism. A 29-y-old female patient was admitted the emergency department with wound, swelling, and pain on her left leg rash whole body result bite. On physical examination, round, hard, black, irregularly shaped area found i...

A 55-year-old Caucasian man presented with unilateral right facial spider nevi. Relevant medical history included a right-sided cerebrovascular accident (CVA) in 1997 and decompensated alcoholic liver disease, diagnosed in 2007. The literature describes approximately 100 cases of unilateral spider nevi associated with different aetiologies, grouped under 'unilateral nevoid telangiectasia syndro...

Loxoscelism is the designation given to clinical symptoms evoked by Loxosceles spider's bites. Clinical manifestations include skin necrosis with gravitational spreading and systemic disturbs. The venom contains several enzymatic toxins. Herein, we describe the cloning, expression, refolding and biological evaluation of a novel brown spider protein characterized as a hyaluronidase. Employing a ...

Introduction: Black widow spider bites cause severe poisoning (latrodectism) with symptoms such as muscle spasm, rigidity, pain, vomiting, hypertension, and tachycardia. Although Latrodectus mactans (L. mactans) is the most well-known species to latrodectism, it has not been reported in Turkey. We report a case caused by tredecimguttatus tredecimguttatus) known be Turkey for first time literatu...

background: an analysis performed on the collected data from the local drug and poison information centre (dpic) of jundishapur university revealed that stings are the main causes of poisonings with frequency of 56%, followed by drug poisoning in 31%, and chemical exposure poisoning in 5.5% in khuzestan, the southwestern province of iran. objectives: the aim of the present study was to report t...