Phylum Annelida: Hirudinea as vectors and disease agents

Fish Diseases and Disorders

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 566-591

  Burreson, Eugene M ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

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