What's eating you? Tarantulas (Theraphosidae)

Cutis

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 162-163

  Elston, Dirk M ^a,b  

^a BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPIDER VENOM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPIDER; SPIDER BITE; UNITED STATES; URTICARIA;

ANIMALS; ARACHNIDISM; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPIDER VENOMS; SPIDERS; UNITED STATES; URTICARIA;

EID: 0036730965     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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