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Tick bites in the Lyme light.
1Department of Paediatrics, Western University, London; 2Centre for Food Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 3National Microbiology Laboratory, National Public Health Laboratories, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba; 4Departments of Paediatrics and Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University and IWK Health ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Parasitology
سال: 1911
ISSN: 0031-1820,1469-8161
DOI: 10.1017/s0031182000002535