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David R Smith1

  • 1Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583-0907, USA. dsmith8@unl.edu

The Veterinary Clinics of North America. Food Animal Practice
|June 18, 2002
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