Haemosporidian parasites: Impacts on avian hosts

Fowler's Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine: Current Therapy

Volumn 7, Issue , 2011, Pages 356-363

  Levin, Iris I ^a   Parker, Patricia G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS ZOO   (United States)

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