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Latrodectism: a prospective cohort study of bites by formally identified redback spiders

Saul Wiener
Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): . || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05640.x
Published online: 20 October 2003

Saul Wiener


  • Royal Melbourne Hospital, 46 Balaclava Road, East St Kilda, VIC 3183.


Correspondence: 

  • 1. Isbister GK, Gray MR. Latrodectism: a prospective cohort study of bites by formally identified redback spiders. Med J Aust 2003; 179: 88-91. <MJA full text>
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  • 6. Banham NDG, Jelinek GA, Finch PM. Late treatment with antivenom in prolonged red-back spider envenomation. Med J Aust 1994; 161: 379-381.

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