Health-risk assessment of Portuguese man-of-war (Physalia physalis) envenomations on urban beaches in São Luís city, in the state of Maranhão, Brazil

Abstract INTRODUCTION: The Portuguese man-of-war (Physalia physalis) is a cosmopolitan species, with a widespread distribution and responsible for a great number of injuries caused by cnidarians worldwide, including Brazil. Geoprocessing technology, however, has never been used to assess the spatial...

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Published in:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Main Authors: Mayana Mendes e Silva Cavalcante, Zulimar Márita Ribeiro Rodrigues, Rachel Ann Hauser-Davis, Salvatore Siciliano, Vidal Haddad Júnior, Jorge Luiz Silva Nunes
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2020
Subjects:
Physalia physalis
Geographic mapping
Venomous animals
Injury prevention
Public health
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
RC955-962
Arctic
Marcos
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0216-2020
https://doaj.org/article/51c77f4f053441419bf769c2913fb37b

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