Efficacy of a killed Streptococcus iniae vaccine in tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)

Bulletin of the European Association of Fish Pathologists

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-41

  Klesius, Phillip H ^a   Shoemaker, Craig A ^a   Evans, Joyce J ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

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