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Echinococcus multilocularis: antigenic variance between different parasite isolates

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Dedicated to Prof. Dr. J. Eckert (Zürich) on occasion of his 60th anniversaries

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Gottstein, B. Echinococcus multilocularis: antigenic variance between different parasite isolates. Parasitol Res 77, 359–361 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00930916

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