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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>0001-6002</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Acta Médica Costarricense]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Acta méd. costarric]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0001-6002</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Colegio de Médicos y Cirujanos de Costa Rica]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id>S0001-60022017000200073</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Lactrodectismo en Costa Rica]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Latrodectism in Costa Rica]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Barrantes-Montero]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Gilbert]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Valerio-Pizarro]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Raquel]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Costa Rica Escuela de Biología ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Costa Rica</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>59</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>73</fpage>
<lpage>74</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0001-60022017000200073&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0001-60022017000200073&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0001-60022017000200073&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Se reporta un accidente causado por la araña Latrodectus geometricus, incluida en el grupo conocido como &#8220;viudas negras&#8221;, en Costa Rica. El accidente le ocurrió a una mujer de 27 años vecina de la ciudad de Cartago, en su casa de habitación. Los síntomas mostrados cursaron la siguiente secuencia: dolor intenso en el área del piquete, enrojecimiento y aumento en la temperatura al tacto alrededor de ese punto, ampliación del área del dolor, sudoración, dolor de espalda, arritmia, taquicardia y aumento de la presión arterial. Los síntomas mostrados en este caso son muy similares a los descritos por personas picadas por la misma u otras especies de viudas negras en Suramérica y Centroamérica.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract We here report a case of human lactrodectism in Costa Rica, caused by the spider Latrodectus geometricus, included in the group known as &#8220;black widows&#8221;. A 27 year-old woman was bitten by a Brown Widow spider in her home in Cartago city. She showed a moderately severe case with the following sequence of symptoms: an acute, intense local pain begins just after being bitten, and this irradiates to the entire affected limb, redness, increase in temperature around the bitten area, sweating and backache. At the cardiovascular level, she showed tachycardia and hypertension. The symptoms showed in this case are quite similar to those cases described for the Brown Widow spider and for other Black Widow spiders, in Central and South America.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Viuda negra]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Latrodectus geometricus]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[lactrodectismo]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Costa Rica]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Brown-widow spider]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Latrodectus geometricus]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[lactrodectism]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Costa Rica]]></kwd>
</kwd-group>
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