Bites by Australian mygalomorph spiders (Araneae, Mygalomorphae), including funnel-web spiders (Atracinae) and mouse spiders (Actinopodidae: Missulena spp)

Toxicon

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 133-140

  Isbister, Geoffrey K ^a   Gray, Mike R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian mygalomorph spiders; Funnel web spiders; Hadronyche; Missulena; Mouse spiders

Indexed keywords

SPIDER VENOM ANTISERUM;

ACTINOPODIDAE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARANEAE; ARTICLE; ATRACINAE; AUSTRALIA; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHORESIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVENOMATION; FEMALE; FOOT INJURY; HAND INJURY; HEALTH CENTER; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PRURITUS; PUNCTURE; SPIDER; SPIDER BITE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ARACHNIDISM; AUSTRALIA; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPIDERS;

ACTINOPODIDAE; ARANEAE; ATRAX; DIPLURIDAE; HADRONYCHE; HEXATHELIDAE; IDIOPIDAE; MISSULENA; MYGALOMORPHAE; NEMESIIDAE;

EID: 1442359942     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2003.11.009     Document Type: Article

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