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Manas Ghosh ¹, Supratick Chakrabortty ¹, Bhaskar Mahanayak ², Kaushik Ghosh ¹, Sankar Talukdar ³

Affiliations
1 Department of General Medicine, Murshidabad Medical College, West Bengal, IN
2 Department of Zoology, Berhampore Girls College, West Bengal, IN
3 Arachnida Section, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, IN

Abstract

Spider species those are important for causing health related hazards, are different from continent to continent and even from country to country. Loxosceles species and Latrodectus species bites are common in South and North America are as Latrodectus species and Latrodectus hasselti bites are common in Africa and Australia respectively. In India spider bite, though common in clinical practice, but still inadequately reported. Though a large number of spider bites seemas harmless, our experience in clinical practice differs in most of the cases. Lack of large studies and few case reports from this part of the world, results in inadequate experience in dealing symptomatic bites. Here we report a middle aged housewife from the eastern part of India who comes to us with gradually progressive local inflammation after a spider bite. Her local inflammation rapidly spread in spite of conservative managements with NSAIDS, local agents, and steroids and only responds on adding Dapsone to the regimen. We confirm the spider as a species of Tarantula of genera chilobrachys with the help of Zoology department and share our experience as a successful treatment of rare an envenomation.

Keywords

Spider Bite, Tarantula, India.

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