Local and systemic antibody response against surface, somatic and ES antigens of Dicrocoelium dendriticum in sheep naturally infected with the trematode

Acta Parasitologica

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 248-253

  Wedrychowicz, Halina ^a   Ducommun, Daniel ^b   Bambara, Omar D ^a   Pfister, Kurt ^b  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b Labor Dr E Graub AG   (Switzerland)

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