Cultivation of mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis

Paratuberculosis: Organism, Disease, Control

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 244-266

  Whittington, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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