A new venomous scorpion responsible for severe envenomation in Argentina: Tityus confluens

Toxicon

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-8

  de Roodt, Adolfo R ^a   Lago, Néstor R ^b   Salomón, Oscar D ^a   Laskowicz, Rodrigo D ^a   Neder de Román, Lilia E ^c   López, Raúl A ^d   Montero, Teresa E ^c   Vega, Valeria del V ^e  

^a Administracion Nacional de Laboratorios E Institutos de Salud Dr Carlos G Malbran   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE JUJUY   (Argentina)

^d Departamento de Zoonosis   (Argentina)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Envenomation; Scorpion; Toxicity; Venom

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVENOMATION; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; LIVER INJURY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POISONOUS SCORPION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; LIVER; LUNG; MICE; MYOCARDIUM; PANCREAS; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS;

ANIMALIA; CENTRUROIDES; CONFLUENS; MUS; SCORPIONES; TITYUS; TITYUS SERRULATUS;

EID: 57849084305     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2008.10.003     Document Type: Article

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