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Article History

Received: 21 November 2017

Accepted: 20 February 2018

First Online: 5 March 2018

Ethics approval

: Post-mortem samples were collected in accordance with institutional guidelines. The two cats included in this study were submitted to our laboratory (the California Animal health and Food Safety Lab –CAHFS-) by the legal owner of these animals, a state government agency for necropsy and diagnostic work up to establish cause of death. Per UCDavis and CAHFS regulations, neither ethics approval nor consent to use diagnostic material submitted to our lab for publication is required. The submitter signed the following statement in the submission form which accompanied the bodies of these two cats: “I understand that specimens submitted are the property of CAHFS”.

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