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easier to maintain than the traditional carnivores.
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Acknowledgment
The authors thank Dr. Daniel Connor and the staff of the Depart-
ment of Infectious and Parasitic Disease Pathology at the Armed
Forces Institute of Pathology for continued help with the histopa-
thology.
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