Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances

Year: 2010
Volume: 9
Issue: 23
Page No. 2951 - 2954

Ethnoveterinary Botanicals Used for Tick Control in the Acholi Subregion of Uganda

Authors : Robert Opiro, Anne M. Akol and Joseph Okello-Onen

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