Diagnostic Exercise: Parasitic Organisms Found in a South African Clawed Toad

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 676-678

  Plummer, Philip R ^a   Snyder, Daniel E ^a   Underwood, Wendy J ^a   Smith, Rosamund C ^a  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMBRYO; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PARASITOSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; TOAD;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; OOCYTES; OVARY; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030479393     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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