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Animais Peçonhentos no Brasil: Biologia, clínica e terapêutica dos acidentes

Article  in  Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo · December 2003

DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652003000600009

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Rev. Inst. Med. trop. S. Paulo
45(6):338, November-December, 2003

BOOK REVIEW*

CARDOSO, J.L.C.; FRANÇA, F.O.S.; WEN, F.H.; MÁLAQUE, C.M.S. & HADDAD Jr., V. - Animais peçonhentos no Brasil: biologia, clínica e
terapêutica dos acidentes. São Paulo, Sarvier; FAPESP, 2003. 468 p. ilus. ISBN 85-7378-133-5.

VENOMOUS ANIMALS IN BRAZIL: BIOLOGY, CLINIC AND THERAPEUTICS OF ENVENOMATIONS

In spite of the high morbidity resulting from venomous snake or
other poisonous animal bites in our Country, this topic do not receive so
much attention in the curricula of medical, paramedical and biological
courses in Brazil.
There is no logical justification for this attitude, principally if we
consider the historical participation of Brazilian scientists in the research
and production of anti-venomous sera in a not so distant past and, on the
other hand, the huge biodiversity present in this Country, specially related
to snakes and other kind of poisonous animals.
This book published by five experts of the Butantan Institute, with
the collaboration of 41 researchers of that and other Brazilian institutions
and three foreigner experts, certainly will decrease the scarceness of
specialized literature in Portuguese language. And, probably, it will
stimulate medical and paramedical students to learn about the biological,
epidemiological, clinical and therapeutic aspects of diseases caused by
animal venoms; moreover, it will constitute a very useful handbook for
clinicians working in Brazilian regions where snakebite or accidents
with other poisonous animals should be frequent.
Besides an interesting preface signed by Oswaldo Vital Brazil, an
Emeritus Professor of UNICAMP and son of the famous researcher who
was the founder of the Butantan Institute in 1901, the book is divided in
seven parts, each one with several chapters, approaching the systematic,
biological, epidemiological, clinical and therapeutic aspects of the several
groups of poisinous animals occurring in Brazil.
Because of its comprehensiveness, deep literature review, scientific
rigor and rich photographic documentation this book should have a
decisive role in the information and formation of new researchers,
recruited among young medical and biological professionals that could
be attracted by this interesting area of knowledge.
Pedro Paulo Chieffi

*This book is available at the Library of the Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo

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