Current and future options for the prevention and treatment of canids

Toxocara: The Enigmatic Parasite

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 239-252

  Epe, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

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