First cases of animal diseases published since 2000. 2. Cats

Summary

In this second article of a series of papers listing first case reports of animal diseases published since 2000, the following nine cases of cat diseases are discussed:

-	Congenital spongiform change in the brain stem nuclei.
-	Enterococcus hirae enteropathy.
-	Focal cerebral angiomatosis.
-	Glomus tumor.
-	Intraocular extramedullary plasmacytoma.
-	Lens epithelial neoplasias.
-	Phaeohyphomycosis due to Fonsecaea pedrosoi.
-	Pulmonary lymphomatoid granulomatosis.
-	Systemic amyloidosis in a Devon rex.

After a short introduction, the bibliographical data, the abstract of the author(s) and some additional information derived from the article are given. The article will be regularly updated adding overlooked as well as new first reports.

Keywords:

• Cat diseases
• First reports
• Review

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This article is the second of a series of papers on first reports of animal diseases. The articles of this series are arranged in order of (groups of) animal species. Cases observed for the first time in a certain country, but already known in one or more other countries are not interpreted as first cases. The articles will be regularly updated by adding overlooked as well as new first reports.