Red-back spider (Latrodectus hasselti) antivenom prevents the toxicity of widow spider venoms

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 154-160

  Graudins, Andis ^a,b   Padula, Matthew ^a,b   Broady, Kevin ^a,b   Nicholson, Graham M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA LATROTOXIN; SPIDER VENOM; SPIDER VENOM ANTISERUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; ENVENOMATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LETHAL DOSE; LETHALITY; MALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE CONTRACTURE; NECK MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIDER; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0035130858     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mem.2001.113033     Document Type: Article

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