Blood parasites and acute osteomyelitis in a non-avian dinosaur (Sauropoda, Titanosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Adamantina Formation, Bauru Basin, Southeast Brazil

@article{Aureliano2021BloodPA, title={Blood parasites and acute osteomyelitis in a non-avian dinosaur (Sauropoda, Titanosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Adamantina Formation, Bauru Basin, Southeast Brazil}, author={Tito Aureliano and Carolina Santa Isabel Nascimento and Marcelo Adorna Fernandes and Fresia Ricardi-Branco and Aline Marcele Ghilardi}, journal={Cretaceous Research}, year={2021}, volume={118}, pages={104672}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:225134198} }
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