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Article History

Received: 6 October 2022

Accepted: 4 November 2022

First Online: 5 December 2022

Change Date: 1 March 2023

Change Type: Update

Change Details: Missing Open Access funding information has been added in the Funding Note.

Declarations

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: The lungs and hearts examined in this study originated from carcasses of <i>F. silvestris</i> collected within the framework of the project “Monitoring of dead wildcats in Rhineland-Palatinate (<i>Totfundmonitoring Wildkatze in Rheinland-Pfalz</i>)” of the German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation, Friends of the Earth Germany, state association of Rhineland-Palatinate [<i>Bund fuer Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland</i> (<i>BUND</i>), <i>Landesverband Rheinland-Pfalz</i>]. Collection of dead found <i>F. silvestris</i> was permitted by the responsible Nature Conservation Agencies [CitationRef removed].

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.