@article{ref1,
title="Envenomation by the Scorpion Tityus breweri in the Guayana Shield, Venezuela: Report of a Case, Efficacy and Reactivity of Antivenom, and Proposal for a Toxinological Partitioning of the Venezuelan Scorpion Fauna",
journal="Wilderness and environmental medicine",
year="2010",
author="Borges, Adolfo and Rojas-Runjaic, Fernando J. M. and Diez, Nardy and Faks, José G. and Op den Camp, Huub J. M. and De Sousa, Leonardo",
volume="21",
number="4",
pages="282-290",
abstract="The severity of the case reinforces categorization of the Guayana Shield region as a macroendemic area of scorpionism in Venezuela and allows classification of T breweri as a species of medical importance, with toxins immunologically related to central-eastern Venezuelan Tityus. Partitioning of the territory incorporating multiple criteria may help health authorities establish and implement preventive and therapeutic measures for scorpion envenoming in this region.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1080-6032",
doi="10.1016/j.wem.2010.06.008",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2010.06.008"
}