Urticating hairs in arthropods: Their nature and medical significance

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2011, Pages 203-220

  Battisti, Andrea ^a   Holm, Göran ^b   Fagrell, Bengt ^b   Larsson, Stig ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

ecology; epidemiology; immunology; Lepidoptera; seta; spider

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; TARANTULA;

EID: 78650179429     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-120709-144844     Document Type: Article

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