Lonomia obliqua Walker (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae): hemostasis implications

Summary In southern Brazil, since 1989, several cases of accidents produced by unwilling contact with the body of poisonous caterpillars of the moth species Lonomia obliqua Walker, 1855 (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae), were described. L. obliqua caterpillars have gregarious behavior and feed on leaves of...

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Main Authors: Silviane Maggi, Gustavo Adolpho Moreira Faulhaber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Médica Brasileira 2015-06-01
Series:Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-42302015000300263&lng=en&tlng=en