Methods forEvaluating Efficacyof EthnoveterinaryMedicinal Plants

Ethnoveterinary Botanical Medicine: Herbal Medicines for Animal Health

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-24

  McGaw, Lyndy J ^a   Eloff, Jacobus N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

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