An outbreak of Clostridium perfringens enteritis in a cattery of Bengal cats and experimental transmission to specific pathogen free cats

Feline Practice

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 31-35

  Foley, Janet ^a   Hirsh, Dwight C ^a   Pedersen, Niels C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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