Lyme disease in dogs: Epidemiology, clinical and diagnostic problems;Die Lyme-Borreliose des hundes: Epidemiologie, klinik und probleme der diagnostik

Tierarztliche Umschau

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 239-242

  Baumeister, Antje Katrin ^a  

^a NONE   (Germany)

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