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payam noor university
Abstract
Based on the published statistics of diseases management center, yearly frequency of scorpion bite in Iran between 2001 to 2003 has been 38415 bite and the rate of death wich is resultant of scorpion bite has been 21 cases during a year. Doubtless scorpion bite is one of our medical problems, but what is important regarding this matter is a fear that people have about this creature. Unfortunately a precise and right statistcs toward the risk of this creature bite does not exist. Till based on that, it woud be possible to recognize scorpion bite of our society is related to what species and it has what a status among category of death causes and based on that prepre a antivenom monovalan related to every scorpion؛ surely we can not deny this problem in south and west regions of our country specially for hot seasons.In this research first, Ilam province based on geography position, scorpion bitting domain, climate and local researches divided to 14 region of sampling. By use of valid identifying keys such as Navid pour(2008), samples recognizes, frequency of scorpion species in each climate region has showed and their distribution map by use of GIS software has drawn. In Ilam province, among 390 hunted scorpion, 10 species include Hottentotta saulcyi(23/07), Mesobuthus eupeus(22/56), Compsobuthus matthiesseni(13/07), hemiscorpius lepturus(12/3), Orthochirus iranus(7/94), Razianus zarudnyi(4/87), Androctonus crassicaudata(4/1), Buthacus macrocentrus(3/33), Scorpio maurus(2/56), Odontobuthus bidentatus(1/02) scorpion identified.
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