Echinostome infection in green frogs (Rana clamitans) is stage and age dependent
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1 School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA 2 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA 3 Pathology and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA 4 Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Public Health, Child Health Research Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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