Praziquantel: Mechanism of action

Parasitic Flatworms: Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Immunology and Physiology

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 269-281

  Greenberg, R M ^a  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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