Population dynamics of human helminth infections: control by chemotherapy

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• Publication year

  1982

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  1982-06-17

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Mathematics

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  DOI 10.1038/297557A0PMID 7088139
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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