What's eating you? Loxosceles reclusa (Brown recluse spider)

Cutis

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 91-95

  Elston, Dirk M ^a  

^a BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPIDER; SPIDER BITE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ARACHNIDISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NECROSIS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPIDERS; UNITED STATES;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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