Myxomatosis is caused by the myxoma virus, a kind of pox virus that only affectsrabbits.1There are also different strains of this virus that vary in their virulence. Both wild and domesticated rabbits can get myxomatosis. Wild rabbits can survive as carriers, but the disease is usually fata...
Myxomatosis is a viral disease caused by a poxvirus in rabbits. The pathogenicity and subsequent morbidity and mortality are influenced not only by the virulence of the particular viral strain, but also the host infected by the organism. Following its initial recognition in Uruguay in 1896, it...
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Myxomatosis is a fatal disease in rabbits caused by the myxoma virus; it is similar to the smallpox virus in people. It was first discovered in England in the 1950s where it came across the Channel from France (where it had been released illegally). It has been endemic in the UK rabb...
Because strains of Myxoma virus differ in virulence and rabbit populations differ in their susceptibility to this pathogen, the success of this virus in controlling rabbits has been variable. When the virus was first introduced to Australia and Europe, it was effective in culling wild rabbits; toda...
RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook myxomatosis Thesaurus Medical Encyclopedia Wikipedia myx·o·ma·to·sis (mĭk-sō′mə-tō′sĭs) n.pl.myx·o·ma·to·ses(-sēz) 1.A highly infectious, usually fatal disease of rabbits that is caused...
Next, in the 1950s, the introduced virus myxomatosis razed the rabbit population, reducing competition for grain and helping cockatoo populations to flourish. FromNew York Times For example, when the rabbits all over England died of the introduced rabbit disease, myxomatosis, the foxes didn’t...
It has only mild effects on New World rabbits, but is quite deadly to Old World rabbits. In 1950 it was introduced to Australia to reduce the population of European rabbits that were deliberately but regrettably introduced to Australia, where they had few natural enemies. The rabbits in ...
Myxoma virus (MV) is a highly lethal, rabbit-specific poxvirus that induces a disease called myxomatosis in European rabbits. In an effort to understand the function of predicted immunomodulatory genes we have deleted various viral genes from MV and tested the ability of these knockout viruses ...
Epidemiology of viral haemorrhagic disease and myxomatosis in a free-living population of wild rabbits.Biological control of vertebrate pests : the history of myxomatosis ; an experiment in evolutionHorizontal transmissible protection against myxomatosis and rabbit hemorrhagic disease by using a ...