Arthropods and skin diseases

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 533-549

  Zhu, Y Isabel ^a   Stiller, Matthew J ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; ANTISERUM; ATROPINE; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BIOALLETHRIN; CAPTOPRIL; CARBAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CARBARIL; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DIAZEPAM; HYDRALAZINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; INSECT REPELLENT; LINDANE; MALATHION; METOCLOPRAMIDE; NIFEDIPINE; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PERMETHRIN; PHENOTHRIN; PRAZOSIN; PYRETHROID; SCORPION VENOM; UNINDEXED DRUG; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ALLERGIC REACTION; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANT; ARTHROPOD; BEE; BEE STING; BEETLE; BITES AND STINGS; BUTTERFLY; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL SKIN REACTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DERMATOLOGY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MEGADOSE; FLEA; FLY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INSECT; INSECT BITE; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; LOUSE; MITE; MORPHOLOGY; MOSQUITO; MOTH; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; PRURITUS; PUBIC PEDICULOSIS; SCABIES; SCORPION; SKIN DISEASE; SPIDER; SPIDER BITE; TICK; TICK BITE; TYPHUS; UNITED STATES; WASP;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BITES AND STINGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 0036751302     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-4362.2002.01471.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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