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Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 504959, 9 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/504959
Research Article
The Hamster Model for Identification of Specific Antigens of Taenia solium Tapeworms
Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología, Facultad de Medicina,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Edificio A, 2do piso, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 México, DF, Mexico
Received 14 July 2011; Accepted 21 September 2011
Academic Editor: Luis I. Terrazas
Copyright © 2011 Alicia Ochoa-Sánchez et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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