Medically important venomous animals: Biology, prevention, first aid, and clinical management

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1309-1317

  Junghanss, Thomas ^a   Bodio, Mauro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT VENOM; BEE VENOM; FISH VENOM; SNAKE VENOM; SPIDER VENOM; VENOM ANTISERUM; VINEGAR; WASP VENOM;

ABSCESS; ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK; ANEMONE; ANT; BEE; BLEEDING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COELENTERATE; CORAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENVENOMATION; ERYTHEMA; FIRST AID; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL; HYMENOPTERA; HYPOTENSION; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; INDUSTRIALIZATION; IRUKANDJI SYNDROME; JELLYFISH; KIDNEY DISEASE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PARALYSIS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SCORPION; SEA SNAKE; SKIN BURNING SENSATION; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN IRRITATION; SKIN NECROSIS; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPIDER; STINGRAY; SYMPTOM; TETANUS PROPHYLAXIS; TRAVEL; VENOMOUS ANIMAL; WASP; WOUND INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; BITES AND STINGS; FIRST AID; FISHES, POISONOUS; HUMANS; INSECTS; SCORPIONS; SNAKE BITES; SNAKES; SPIDERS;

EID: 33750696374     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/508279     Document Type: Review

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