Loxosceles laeta venom in rabbits
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5 Guilherme Martins1, Maira Oliveira1, Ana Flávia Botelho1, Conrado Gamba2, Clara Duarte3, 6 Adriane Bicalho1, Geovanni Cassali2, Alfredo Goes2, Carlos Chávez-Olórtegui2, Benito 7 Soto-Blanco1 and Marilia Melo1* 8 9 1 Escola de Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte 31270-901, Minas 10 Gerais, Brazil; [email protected] (GM); [email protected] (MO); 11 [email protected] (AFB); [email protected] (AB); [email protected] (BSB) 12 2 Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte 13 31270-901, Minas Gerais, Brazil; [email protected] (CG); [email protected] (GC); 14 [email protected] (AG); [email protected] (CCO) 15 3 Diretoria de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento, Fundação Ezequiel Dias (FUNED), Belo Horizonte, 16 MG, Brazil; [email protected] (CD) 17 * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +55-31-3409-2250 18 19 20 21
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