Mediterranean jellyfish (Rhopilema nomadica) sting [4]

Burns

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 503-504

  Yoffe, Boris ^a   Baruchin, Abraham M ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ENVENOMATION; FISHING; HUMAN; JELLYFISH; LETTER; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PRURITUS; RASH; SEASHORE; VOLUNTEER;

ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; HUMANS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 3042685014     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2004.01.013     Document Type: Letter

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