Murine encephalitozoonosis and kidney lesions in some Slovak laboratory animal breeding centres

Helminthologia

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 107-110

  El Naas, A ^a   Revajova V ^a   Letkova V ^a   Halanova M ^a   Stefkovic M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Encephalitozoonosis; Immunofluorescence; Kidney lesions; Mice; Serology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032372548     PISSN: 04406605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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