{"pk":61834,"title":"Brown Recluse Spider in the Mediterranean Region: A Review of the Literature","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Spiders are eight-legged arthropods that belong tothe arachnids class and are found on every continentexcept Antarctica.1 As of 2020, there are over 48000recognized species of spiders with more than 5000in the Mediterranean area. Out of these, only twospiders, the Latrodectus tredecimguttatus and theLoxosceles rufescens are of medical significance in theMediterranean area.1 Although most spider bites arebenign; however, severe reactions and life-threateningenvenomation do occur.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Brown recluse spider"},{"word":"Spider"},{"word":"toxicology"}],"section":"Invited Editorial","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2w15h2dd","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Victoria","middle_name":"","last_name":"Al Karaki","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""},{"first_name":"Tharwat","middle_name":"","last_name":"El Zahran","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2023-04-23T21:27:46-07:00","date_accepted":"2023-04-23T21:27:46-07:00","date_published":"2020-12-31T16:00:00-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uciem_medjem/article/61834/galley/47701/download/"}]}