A clinical and epidemiological study of Loxosceles spider envenoming in Santa Catarina, Brazil

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 546-548

  Sezerino, Ulisses Marion ^a   Zannin, Marlene ^a   Coelho, Luciano Kowlaski ^a   Gonçalves Jr , João ^a   Grando, Margareth ^a   Mattosinho, Suely Grossemann ^a   Cardoso, João Luiz Costa ^b   Von Eickstedt, Vera Regina ^b   França, Francisco Oscar Siqueira ^b   Barbaro, Kätia Cristina ^b   Fan, Hui Wen ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Epidemiology; Loxosceles intermedia; Loxosceles laeta; Loxoscelism; Pathology; Spider bite

Indexed keywords

SPIDER VENOM ANTISERUM;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANURIA; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; EDEMA; ENVENOMATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; INFANT; INTRAVASCULAR HEMOLYSIS; JAUNDICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NECROSIS; OLIGURIA; PAIN; SEASHORE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHOCK; SPIDER BITE;

ARANEAE; LOXOSCELES; LOXOSCELES INTERMEDIA; LOXOSCELES LAETA;

EID: 13144307124     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(98)90909-9     Document Type: Article

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