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Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology Volume 48, 1954 - Issue 1
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Observations on the Biology of West Nile Virus, with Special Reference to its Behaviour in the Mosquito Aëdes Aegypti

A. Michael Davies From the Israeli Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel
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Yona Yoshpe-Purer From the Israeli Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel
Pages 46-54 | Received 02 Dec 1953, Published online: 17 Mar 2016

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