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Original Articles

Studies on the Transmission of Cotton Rat Filariasis

I.—the Variability of the Intensities of Infection in the Individuals of the Vector, Liponyssus Bacoti, its Causation and its Bearing on the Problem of Quantitative Transmission

Pages 313-332 | Received 08 Oct 1949, Published online: 22 Mar 2016

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