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Parasite
Volume 21, 2014
Novel Approaches to the Control of Parasites in Goats and Sheep. Invited editors: Hervé Hoste, Smaragda Sotiraki and Michel Alvinerie
Article Number 56
Number of page(s) 15
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2014055
Published online 29 October 2014
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