Diagnosis of paratuberculosis by PCR

Paratuberculosis: Organism, Disease, Control

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 267-283

  Bölske, Göran ^a   Herthnek, David ^a  

^a NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

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