Seroprevalence of brucellosis in a few important Indian goat breeds

Small Ruminant Research

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 93-98

  Singh, S V ^a   Singh, N ^a   Gupta, V K ^a   Shankar, H ^a   Vihan, V S ^a   Gupta, Vinod K ^a   Tiwari, H A ^a  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON GOATS   (India)

Author keywords

Agglutination test; Brucellosis; Dot Elisa; Goats

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347890290     PISSN: 09214488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0921-4488(98)00094-7     Document Type: Article

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