Citation

French RN, Brillhart D. New Engl. J. Med. 2015; 373(18): e21.

Affiliation

University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Massachusetts Medical Society)

DOI

10.1056/NEJMicm1414613

PMID

26510046

Abstract

A 42-year-old woman contacted the Arizona poison center after envenomation by a tricolor buckmoth caterpillar. She had been underneath a mesquite tree when the caterpillar fell onto her left shoulder. Within minutes, a pruritic urticarial eruption had developed.

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