Evaluating breeding soundness in stallions - 3: Useful laboratory tests

Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 263-267

  Blanchard, Terry L ^a   Varner, Dickson D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0346422859     PISSN: 87507943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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