title: Treatment of arachnid poisoning in Australia.
abstract: Most Australian spiders are capable of causing a bite which produces some degree of local reaction and occasionally systemic effects. However, only the Sydney funnel-web spider which is limited to a 160 kilometre radius from the centre of Sydney and the red-back spider which is found in all States are capable of inflicting a potentially lethal bite.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001315:Australia; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012472:Salivation; D065008:Scorpion Stings; D012605:Scorpions; D001098:Spider Bites / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D013112:Spiders / Q000145:classification; D013986:Tick Toxicoses / Q000628:therapy; D013987:Ticks; D014474:Unconsciousness / Q000188:drug therapy; D014839:Vomiting / Q000209:etiology