Surface and ES antigens of adult Dicrocoelium dendriticum inducing bile antibody responses in naturally infected cattle

Acta Parasitologica

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 139-144

  Wedrychowicz, Halina ^a   Ducommun, Daniel ^b   Klockiewicz, Maciej ^a   Pfister, Kurt ^b  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b Labor Pfister   (Switzerland)

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