Piranha Attacks on Humans in Southeast Brazil: Epidemiology, Natural History, and Clinical Treatment, with Description of a Bite Outbreak

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 249-254

  Haddad Jr , Vidal ^a   Sazima, Ivan ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bites; Dangerous fish; Piranha; Predaceous carnivores; Serrasalmus spilopleura

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BITE; BRAZIL; CARNIVORE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DROWNING; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FISH ATTACK; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PIRANHA; PREDATION; SERRASALMUS SPILOPLEURA;

EID: 0346787881     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(2003)14[249:paohis]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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