title: Wandering spider bite--much ado about nothing.
abstract: The wandering spider, Palystes natalius, has been regarded as medically important since 1959. Simple experiments recently conducted suggest that serious misinterpretations of an observed result were responsible for this misconception.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D011817:Rabbits; D013019:South Africa; D001098:Spider Bites; D013112:Spiders