The evolving global epidemiology, syndromic classification, management, and prevention of caterpillar envenoming

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 347-357

  Diaz, James H ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VENOM; ARTHROPOD VENOM;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BEE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BUTTERFLY; DERMATITIS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ENVENOMATION; HUMAN; INSECT STING; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEPIDOPTERA; MOTH; NONHUMAN; OSTEOCHONDRITIS; PREDATOR; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; URTICARIA; WASP; WORM; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT BITE; LARVA;

APOIDEA; ARTHROPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PHACELIA CONGESTA;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VENOMS; BUTTERFLIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; LARVA; MOTHS;

EID: 18244398965     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2005.72.347     Document Type: Article

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