International Journal of Tropical Medicine

Year: 2010
Volume: 5
Issue: 3
Page No. 73 - 80

Urinary Schistomiasis in the Niger-Benue Basin of Kogi State, Nigeria

Authors : I.A.A. Ejima and A.B. Odaibo

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