Prescott's Microbiology

10th Edition

ISBN: 9781259281594

Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

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How do infections caused by Entamoeba histolytica occur?

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