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“Enteque Seco”, Calcification and Wasting in Grazing Animals in the Argentine

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“ENTEQUE SECO” is the name given to a wasting disease of grazing animals frequently encountered in the central eastern and south-eastern areas of the province of Buenos Aires and which is a cause of considerable economic loss to livestock producers.

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WORKER, N., CARRILLO, B. “Enteque Seco”, Calcification and Wasting in Grazing Animals in the Argentine. Nature 215, 72–74 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215072a0

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