International Journal of Tropical Medicine

Year: 2013
Volume: 8
Issue: 5
Page No. 129 - 134

The Effect of Otostegia integrefolia Leaf Extracts on the Packed Cell Volume, Body Weight and Survival Time of Plasmodium berghei Infected Mice

Authors : Solomon Yeshanew and Yalemtsehay Mekonnen

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