Bluetongue virus diagnosis

Bluetongue

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 365-395

  Mertens, Peter P C ^a   Maan, Sushila ^a   Batten, Carrie ^a   Darpel, Karin E ^a   Shaw, Andrew ^a   Maan, Narender S ^a   Nomikou, Kyriaki ^a   Anthony, Simon J ^a   Veronesi, Eva ^a   Oura, Chris A L ^a   Carpenter, Simon ^a   Mellor, Philip S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

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