Digestive worms: Ethnomedical approaches to intestinal parasitism in southern ethiopia

The Anthropology of Infectious Disease: International Health Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 241-266

  Vecchiato, Norbert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315078366-20     Document Type: Chapter

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