The cat is out of the bag: How parasites know their hosts

Elizabeth D English1, Boris Striepen1

  • 1Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

Plos Biology
|September 6, 2019
PubMed

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