First description of naturally acquired Tritrichomonas foetus infection in a Persian cattery in Spain

Parasitology Research - Tập 109 Số 4 - Trang 1151-1154 - 2011
Guadalupe Miró1, Leticia Hernández1, Ana Montoya1, David Arranz-Solís1, Diana Dado1, Silvia Rojo-Montejo1, Jesús Alberto Mendoza-Ibarra1, Luís Miguel Ortega-Mora1, Susana Pedraza-Dı́az1
1Departamento de Sanidad Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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