Managing trace mineral deficiencies in South American camelids

Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 744-750

  Waldridge, Bryan M ^a   Pugh, David G ^b  

^a TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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