Issue
Parasite
Volume 21, 2014
Innovation for the Management of Echinococcosis. Invited editors: Dominique A. Vuitton, Laurence Millon, Bruno Gottstein and Patrick Giraudoux
Article Number 63
Number of page(s) 10
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2014063
Published online 28 November 2014
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