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Leucocytozoon Disease of Turkeys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2007

B. D. Barnett
B. D. Barnett
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Department of Poultry Science, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina.
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , May 1977 , pp. 76 - 87
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