Allergy to locusts and acridid grasshoppers: A review

Journal of Orthoptera Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 59-67

  Pener, Meir Paul ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chortoicetes terminifera; field allergy; food allergy; Locusta migratoria; Melanoplus sanguinipes; occupational allergy; Schistocerca gregaria; Tettigoniidae

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904655507     PISSN: 10826467     EISSN: 19372426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1665/034.023.0105     Document Type: Article

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