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Toxocara canis, Toxocara cati and Toxascaris leonina in wild and domestic carnivores Cover

Toxocara canis, Toxocara cati and Toxascaris leonina in wild and domestic carnivores

Helminthologia
Volume 49 (2012): Issue 1 (March 2012)
By: A. Okulewicz,  A. Perec-Matysiak,  K. Buńkowska and  J. Hildebrand  
Open Access
|Jan 2012

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/s11687-012-0001-6 | Journal eISSN: 1336-9083 | Journal ISSN: 0440-6605
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Language: English
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Published on: Jan 11, 2012
Published by: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Parasitology
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Keywords:
T. canis,
T. cati,
Toxascaris leonina,
carnivores
Related subjects:
Life sciences,
Zoology,
Ecology,
Life sciences, other,
Medicine,
Clinical medicine,
Microbiology, virology and infection epidemiology

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