Population Explosions of Tiger Moth Lead to Lepidopterism Mimicking Infectious Fever Outbreaks

Lepidopterism is a disease caused by the urticating scales and toxic fluids of adult moths, butterflies or its caterpillars. The resulting cutaneous eruptions and systemic problems progress to clinical complications sometimes leading to death. High incidence of fever epidemics were associated with m...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one 2016-04, Vol.11 (4), p.e0152787
Hauptverfasser:	Wills, Pallara Janardhanan, Anjana, Mohan, Nitin, Mohan, Varun, Raghuveeran, Sachidanandan, Parayil, Jacob, Tharaniyil Mani, Lilly, Madhavan, Thampan, Raghava Varman, Karthikeya Varma, Koyikkal
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Allergens Animals Arthritis Asota caricae Biology and Life Sciences Body fluids Butterflies & moths Case-Control Studies Caterpillars Causes of Child Child, Preschool Communicable Diseases - diagnosis Communicable Diseases - epidemiology Communicable Diseases - etiology Complications Computational fluid dynamics Demographic aspects Dermatitis, Allergic Contact - diagnosis Dermatitis, Allergic Contact - epidemiology Dermatitis, Allergic Contact - etiology Diagnosis Disease Disease Outbreaks Environmental aspects Epidemics Exanthema - diagnosis Exanthema - epidemiology Exanthema - etiology Explosions Female Fever Fever - diagnosis Fever - epidemiology Fever - etiology High-performance liquid chromatography Humans Immunoglobulin E India - epidemiology Infectious diseases Inflammation Inhalation Lepidoptera Liquid chromatography Male Medicine and Health Sciences Middle Aged Mimicry Monsoons Moths - immunology Moths - pathogenicity Outbreaks Patients Physiological aspects Physiology Population Rats Rats, Sprague-Dawley Rats, Wistar Respiration Roads & highways Skin eruptions Studies Systems stability Young Adult
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