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CASE REPORT DESCRIPTION OF AN INJURY IN A HUMAN CAUSED BY

236 HADDAD JUNIOR, V.; CARDOSO, J.L.C. & MORAES, R.H.P. Description of an injury in a human caused by a false tocandira (Dinoponera gigantea, Perty, 1833) with a revision onfolkloric, pharmacological and clinical aspects of the giant ants of the genera Paraponera and Dinoponera (sub family Ponerinae).Rev.

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The species include Paraponera clavata (tocandira) and Dinoponera spp. (false tocandiras) of South America and the Myrmecia ants of Australia. In South Africa, ants are used to help harvest the seeds of rooibos (Aspalathus linearis), a plant used to make a herbal tea. The plant disperses its seeds widely, making manual collection difficult.

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Description of an injury in a human caused by a false

Abstract. The authors observed an injury caused by the sting of a false tocandira ant in the hand of an amateur fisherman and they describe the clinical findings and the evolution of the envenoming, which presented an acute and violent pain, cold sweating, nausea, a vomiting episode, malaise, tachycardia and left axillary's lymphadenopathy.