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Feline vaccine-associated sarcomas: progress?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Dennis W. Macy*
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

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