Amoebic Gill Disease in the marine environment

Bulletin of the European Association of Fish Pathologists

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 144-147

  Nowak, Barbara F ^a   Carson, Jeremy ^a   Powell, Mark D ^a   Dyková, Iva ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

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