Fresh Vegetables and Ready-to-eat Salads: Sources of Parasitic Zoonoses in Mampong-Ashanti, Ghana
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2347-5641
DOI: 10.9734/ejnfs/2020/v12i230192