South and Southeast Asia and Latin American together comprise 46 countries and are home
to approximately 40% of the world population. The sociopolitical and economic …

Contact with the Lonomia caterpillar causes numerous accidents, especially in Venezuela
and the southern region of Brazil, where it is considered a public health problem. The …

Taken together, these taxa probably form a monophyletic group (Minet 1991, 1994) and they
have been occasionally regarded as parts of a single superfamily (Brock 1971). Yet there …

Caterpillars are the wormlike, larval forms of butterflies and moths of the insect order
Lepidoptera. Next to flies, lepidopterans are the most abundant arthropods with more than …

Acute renal failure (ARF) is a complication of envenoming by contact with caterpillars of the
species Lonomia obliqua. A cohort study was conducted to evaluate development of acute …

The number of accidents caused by injection of the venom of Lonomia obliqua caterpillars in
Southern Brazil has increased in the last years. Even though this kind of envenomation has …

Envenomation by the larval or pupal stages of moths occurs when the victim presses their
hairs. They penetrate the subcutaneous tissue, releasing toxins such as proteolytic …

In 1967 we reported for the first time five cases of an acquired bleeding disorder in humans
which developed after contact with saturnidae caterpillars. Since that time, other cases have …

Envenomation caused by Lonomia obliqua caterpillars is an increasing problem in Southern
Brazil. The clinical profile is characterized by a profound hemorrhagic disorder. In the …

SIR—A previously healthy 52-year-old woman had contact with caterpillar on her arm near a
plum tree. She felt local burning pain immediately and, some hours later, had weakness and …