What's eating you? Latrodectus mactans (The black widow spider)

Cutis

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 257-258

  Elston, Dirk M ^a  

^a BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VENOM ANTISERUM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; HUMAN; SPIDER; SPIDER BITE;

ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; ARACHNIDISM; BLACK WIDOW SPIDER; HUMANS;

EID: 0036547608     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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