Jellyfish sting. An update;Picaduras de medusas: Actualización

Revista Medica de Chile

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 233-241

  Vera K, Cristián ^a   Kolbach R, Marianne ^a   Zegpi T, María Soledad ^a   Vera K, Francisco ^a,b   Lonza J, Juan Pedro ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

Author keywords

Cnidarian veroms; Jellyfish; Poisons

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; POISON;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; FATALITY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; JELLYFISH; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; REVIEW; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TOXICITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; CNIDARIAN VENOMS; HUMANS; MALE; SCYPHOZOA; SYNDROME;

EID: 12444320442     PISSN: 00349887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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