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Feeding of Ticks on Animals for Transmission and Xenodiagnosis in Lyme Disease Research
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Malignant catarrhal fever in sika deer (Cervus nippon) in the UK
K L Foyle1, H E Fuller, R J Higgins
1Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) Luddington, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, UK. l.foyle@vla.defra.gsi.gov.uk
The Veterinary Record
|October 13, 2009
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