Vectors and reservoir hosts of anaplasmataceae

Rickettsial Diseases

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 199-212

  Inokuma, Hisashi ^a  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

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