Animal and human health risks associated with Africanized honeybees

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 215, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1799-1804

  Rodriguez Lainz, Alfonso ^a   Fritz, Curtis L ^a   McKenna, William R ^b  

^a Division of Communicable Disease Control   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIPRURITIC AGENT; BEE VENOM; CIMETIDINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DIAZEPAM; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; DIURETIC AGENT; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; FUROSEMIDE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PHENOBARBITAL;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANIMAL MODEL; BEE STING; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DOG; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEMODIALYSIS; HONEYBEE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INSECT BITE; MALE; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SEPTICEMIA;

AGED; ANIMALS; BEE VENOMS; BEES; CALIFORNIA; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; LATIN AMERICA; MALE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033572434     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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