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Gordon H. Ball, Jowett Chao, Sam R. Telford, Jr., Hepatozoon fusifex sp. n., a Hemogregarine from Boa constrictor Producing Marked Morphological Changes in Infected Erythrocytes, The Journal of Parasitology, Vol. 55, No. 4 (Aug., 1969), pp. 800-813
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