Laboratory animal allergy

Handbook of Laboratory Animal Science, Second Edition: Essential Principles and Practices

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 107-126

  Preece, Richard M ^a   Renström, Anne ^b  

^a ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

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