 Black Widow Spider
"Black Widow Spider" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A venomous New World spider with an hourglass-shaped red mark on the abdomen.
| Descriptor ID |
D001740
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.131.166.803.200
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| Concept/Terms |
Black Widow Spider- Black Widow Spider
- Black Widow Spiders
- Spider, Black Widow
- Spiders, Black Widow
- Widow Spider, Black
- Widow Spiders, Black
- Latrodectus mactans
- Latrodectus mactan
- mactan, Latrodectus
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Black Widow Spider" by people in Profiles.
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Halmo LS, Hurst IA, Ng PC, Wang GS. Latrodectus Facies After Latrodectus Hesperus Envenomation in?a?Pediatric Patient. J Emerg Med. 2019 Oct; 57(4):523-526.
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Dart RC, Bush SP, Heard K, Arnold TC, Sutter M, Campagne D, Holstege CP, Seifert SA, Lo JCY, Quan D, Borron S, Meurer DA, Burnham RI, McNally J, Garcia-Ubbelohde W, Anderson VE. The Efficacy of Antivenin Latrodectus (Black Widow) Equine Immune F(ab')2 Versus Placebo in the Treatment of Latrodectism: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Clinical Trial. Ann Emerg Med. 2019 09; 74(3):439-449.
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Glatstein M, Carbell G, Scolnik D, Rimon A, Hoyte C. Treatment of pediatric black widow spider envenomation: A national poison center's experience. Am J Emerg Med. 2018 06; 36(6):998-1002.
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Dart RC, Bogdan G, Heard K, Bucher Bartelson B, Garcia-Ubbelohde W, Bush S, Arnold T, Clark RC, Hendey GW, Holstege C, Spradley EA. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of a highly purified equine F(ab)2 antibody black widow spider antivenom. Ann Emerg Med. 2013 Apr; 61(4):458-67.
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Monte AA. Black widow spider (Latrodectus mactans) antivenom in clinical practice. Curr Pharm Biotechnol. 2012 Aug; 13(10):1935-9.
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Hoyte CO, Cushing TA, Heard KJ. Anaphylaxis to black widow spider antivenom. Am J Emerg Med. 2012 Jun; 30(5):836.e1-2.
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Monte AA, Bucher-Bartelson B, Heard KJ. A US perspective of symptomatic Latrodectus spp. envenomation and treatment: a National Poison Data System review. Ann Pharmacother. 2011 Dec; 45(12):1491-8.
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Krell FT, Wild M. Black widow spider Latrodectus cinctus (Araneae: Theridiidae) new to Liberia--savanna species in the forest zone. J Med Entomol. 1994 Nov; 31(6):927-30.
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