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Clinical Communication

Identification of the 1B vaccine strain of Chlamydia abortus in aborted placentas during the investigation of toxaemic and systemic disease in sheep

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Pages 284-287 | Received 22 Jul 2014, Accepted 03 Feb 2015, Published online: 18 Jun 2015

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