A survey for Echinococcus spp. of carnivores in six wildlife conservation areas in Kenya.

@article{Kagendo2014ASF,
  title={A survey for Echinococcus spp. of carnivores in six wildlife conservation areas in Kenya.},
  author={Dorothy Kagendo and Japhet K. Magambo and Eric L. Agola and Sammy M. Njenga and Eberhard Zeyhle and Erastus Mulinge and Peter Gitonga and Cecilia K Mbae and Eric M. Muchiri and Marion Wassermann and Peter M. Kern and Thomas Romig},
  journal={Parasitology international},
  year={2014},
  volume={63 4},
  pages={
          604-11
        }
}
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