Relationship Between Scorpion Stings Events and Environmental Conditions in Mainland France. Issue 6 (5th July 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Relationship Between Scorpion Stings Events and Environmental Conditions in Mainland France. Issue 6 (5th July 2021)
- Main Title:
- Relationship Between Scorpion Stings Events and Environmental Conditions in Mainland France
- Authors:
- Vaucel, Jules-Antoine
Larréché, Sébastien
Paradis, Camille
Labadie, Magali
Courtois, Arnaud
Grenet, Guillaume
Langrand, Jérome
Tournoud, Christine
Nisse, Patrick
Gallart, Jean-Christophe
Schmitt, Corinne
Torrents, Romain
Le Roux, Gaël
Gil-Jardine, Cédric
Kallel, Hatem - Editors:
- Rich, Stephen
- Abstract:
- Abstract: In the world, the impact of environmental conditions on the number of scorpion events was evaluated in North Africa, Middle East, and the Amazonian region but not in Europe. In mainland France, scorpion species described are Buthus occitanus (Amoreux, 1789), Belisarius xambeui (Simon, 1879) and 4 Euscorpiidae: Euscorpius concinnus (Koch, 1837), Euscorpius italicus (Herbst, 1800), Euscorpius tergestinus (Koch, 1837), and Tetratrichobothrius flavicaudis (De Geer, 1778). We aimed to describe the impact of environmental conduction on the number of scorpion events. For this, a retrospective multi-center study was conducted with data from the French poison control centers files about scorpion events between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2020. During the study period, 975 incoming calls for scorpion events were recorded and 574 were related to scorpions native to mainland France and Corsica: B. occitanus (n = 86), Euscorpiidae species (n = 222), B. xambeui (n = 1), and undetermined species (n = 265). Cases were mostly reported along the Mediterranean coast, along rivers, and in cities with a trading port. The number of scorpion events was linked to the rivers' water level, rivers' flow, temperature, sunshine, and pluviometry (P < 0.05 for all variables). B. occitanus need warmest and driest environment than Euscorpiidae spp. A link between the severity of the envenoming and climatic condition or seasonality was not demonstrated.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of medical entomology. Volume 58:Issue 6(2021)
- Journal:
- Journal of medical entomology
- Issue:
- Volume 58:Issue 6(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 58, Issue 6 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 58
- Issue:
- 6
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0058-0006-0000
- Page Start:
- 2146
- Page End:
- 2153
- Publication Date:
- 2021-07-05
- Subjects:
- epidemiology -- public health entomology -- toxicology -- ecology & population dynamics -- scorpion
Insects as carriers of disease -- Periodicals
616.968 - Journal URLs:
- http://jme.oxfordjournals.org/ ↗
http://www.oxfordjournals.org ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1093/jme/tjab109 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0022-2585
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- Legaldeposit
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