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Clinical Research

The clinical effects of the venomous Lessepsian migrant fish Plotosus lineatus (Thunberg, 1787) in the Southeastern Mediterranean Sea

Yedidia BenturClinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Section, Israel Poison Information Center, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel; ;The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; Correspondence[email protected]
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Sergey AltuninClinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Section, Israel Poison Information Center, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel;
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Iris LevdovClinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Section, Israel Poison Information Center, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel;
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Daniel GolaniDepartment of Evolution, Ecology & Behaviour, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel;
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Ehud SpanierThe Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies & Department of Maritime Civilizations, The Leon H. Charney School for Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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Dor EdelistThe Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies & Department of Maritime Civilizations, The Leon H. Charney School for Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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Yael LurieClinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Section, Israel Poison Information Center, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel; ;The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel;
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Pages 327-331 | Received 01 Aug 2017, Accepted 25 Sep 2017, Published online: 05 Oct 2017

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