Cryptobia (Trypanoplasma) salmositica

Fish Parasites: Pathobiology and Protection

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 30-54

  Woo, Patrick T K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

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