How to test a test: Methods of field validation for non-culture-based detection techniques

Bulletin of the European Association of Fish Pathologists

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 245-250

  Hiney, Maura ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

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