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DUTCH elm disease has been present in Great Britain for more than fifty years, but apart from heavy attacks in the 1930s it has generally been an endemic problem of no great importance, twig and branch infection being frequent but trees rarely dying1.
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GIBBS, J., HEYBROEK, H. & HOLMES, F. Aggressive Strain of Ceratocystis ulmi in Britain. Nature 236, 121–122 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/236121a0
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