About spider bites in Middle Europe, there are published only a dozen cases. The investigators suspect that they may be much more frequent than reflected by the literature analysis (but much less dangerous than thought by people). From June 1st 2011 to November 30st 2012 the investigators collect clinical data on patients treated for spider bites in Switzerland.
Inclusion criteria: Every human treated for suspected spider bite in Switzerland willing to participate this study.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
17
Praxis Dr. med. Markus Gnaedinger
Steinach, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Clinical follow up of bite lesions.
Clinical evolutions of actual spider bite lesions in humans are observed.
Time frame: 14 days (or more if necessary)
Time spread of spider bites
Frequencies of spider bites over the study period of 18 months are observed.
Time frame: 18 months
Causative animals
To determine spider species causing bites in Switzerland by sending spider specimens to an expert arachnologist.
Time frame: 18 months
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