Insights into brown spider and loxoscelism

Loxosceles is a genus of cosmopolitan spiders comprising several species, and popularly knownas brown spiders or brown recluses. Brown spider bites can cause dermonecrotic lesions andsystemic reactions known as loxoscelism. Systemic effects are less common but may be severe oreven fatal in some pati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: MH Appel, R Bertoni da Silveira, W Gremski, SS Veiga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia 2005-12-01
Series:Invertebrate Survival Journal
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Online Access:http://www.isj.unimo.it/articoli/ISJ109.pdf