Host antibody recognition of surface and somatic antigens of the parasitic developmental stages of Ancylostoma ceylanicum

Acta Parasitologica

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 43-49

  Wedrychowicz, Haiina ^a   Orzeł, Anna ^a   Behnke, Jerzy M ^b  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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