Efficacy of a jellyfish sting inhibitor in preventing jellyfish stings in normal volunteers

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 102-108

  Kimball, Alexa Boer ^a,d   Arambula, Karina Zuelma ^a   Stauffer, Arlen Ray ^b   Levy, Valeh ^b   Davis, Valerie Weaver ^b   Liu, Michael ^a   Rehmus, Wingfield Ellis ^a   Lotan, Amit ^c   Auerbach, Paul S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Bert Fish Medical Center   (United States)

^c Nidaria Technology   (Israel)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chiropsalmus; Chrysaora; Inhibitor; Jellyfish; Nematocyst; Sting

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; COPPERTONE; JELLYFISH STING INHIBITOR; PLACEBO; SAFE SEA; SUNSCREEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHIROPSALMUS; CHIROPSALMUS QUADRUMANUS; CHRYSAORA; CHRYSAORA FUSCESCENS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; ERYTHEMA; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSECT STING; JELLYFISH; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK REDUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUNLIGHT PROTECTION;

EID: 2942597454     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(2004)015[0102:EOAJSI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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