What's eating you? Megalopyge opercularis

Cutis

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 445-448

  Severs, Gregg Anthony ^a   Elston, Dirk M ^b  

^a PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT VENOM; ARTHROPOD VENOM;

ANAPHYLACTOID PURPURA; BUTTERFLY; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENVENOMATION; INSECT ALLERGY; INSECT STING; LARVA; MOTH; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; WASP; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BITES AND STINGS; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SKIN DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VENOMS; BITES AND STINGS; HUMANS; MOTHS; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 0141447721     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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