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Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology Volume 73, 1979 - Issue 5
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Schistosomiasis: assessment of the sensitivity, specificity and reproducibility of serological methods for the diagnosis of schistosomiasis in Nigeria

Vijayamma ThomasDepartment of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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E. O. OgunbaDepartment of Medical Microbiology, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria
&
A. FabiyiVirus Research Laboratory, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria
Pages 451-456 | Received 01 Jun 1978, Published online: 11 Mar 2016

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