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Serodiagnosis of canine visceral leishmaniasis in Portugal: comparison of three methods

Nurit RachamimDepartment of Biophysics and Mac Arthur Center for Molecular Biology of Tropical Diseases, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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Charles L. JaffeDepartment of Biophysics and Mac Arthur Center for Molecular Biology of Tropical Diseases, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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P. AbranchesDisciplina de Protozoologia, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal
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M. C. D. Silva-PereiraDisciplina de Protozoologia, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal
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Lionel F. SchnurDepartment of Parasitology, Kuvin Center, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
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Raymond L. JacobsonDepartment of Parasitology, Kuvin Center, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
Pages 503-508 | Received 30 Jan 1991, Accepted 26 Apr 1991, Published online: 15 Nov 2016

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