Why I don't use Lyme disease vaccines

Compendium on Continuing Education for the Practicing Veterinarian

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 1997, Pages

  Littman, Meryl P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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