Tiny ticks are vast sources of antihaemostatic factors

Toxins and Hemostasis: From Bench to Bedside

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 113-130

  Kazimírová, Mária ^a   Koh, Cho Yeow ^b   Kini, R Manjunatha ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9295-3_8     Document Type: Chapter

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