Tick Bioactive Molecules as Novel Therapeutics: Beyond Vaccine Targets.

Front Cell Infect Microbiol

Section of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of MedicineNew Haven, CT, United States.

Published: August 2018

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