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Experimental Infection of Specific Pathogen-Free New Zealand White Rabbits with Five Strains of Amyxomatous Myxoma Virus
Marlier, Didier; Cassart, Dominique; Boucraut-Baralon, C. et al.
1999In Journal of Comparative Pathology, 121 (4), p. 369-84
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Abstract :
[en] Myxomatosis is a specific disease of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) due to a virus belonging to the genus Leporipoxvirus. Forty-seven years after its deliberate introduction into Europe, the clinical aspects and the epizootiology of myxomatosis have changed. Two forms (nodular and amyxomatous) of the disease have been identified to date. A comparative study was made of the clinical signs, pathogenesis and gross lesions observed in male specific pathogen-free New Zealand White rabbits inoculated with five strains of amyxomatous myxoma virus. All five strains induced the characteristic amyxomatous myxomatosis clinical syndrome with clinical signs that differed only in intensity. The varying clinical intensity, together with the results of virological examination question the virulence of at least three of the five strains. Genomic analysis confirmed that the five strains came from the Lausanne strain introduced in 1952 in France and not from an unnoticed introduction of a Californian strain of myxoma virus. No link was found between the amyxomatous myxoma virus strains and the SG33 vaccine strain. 1999 Harcourt Publishers Ltd.
Disciplines :
Veterinary medicine & animal health
Author, co-author :
Marlier, Didier  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Médecine des oiseaux, des lagomorphes et des rongeurs
Cassart, Dominique ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de morphologie et pathologie > Département de morphologie et pathologie
Boucraut-Baralon, C.
Coignoul, Freddy ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de morphologie et pathologie > Pathologie générale et autopsies
Vindevogel, Henri ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Services généraux (Faculté de médecine vétérinaire) > Relations académiques et scientifiques (Méd. vétérinaire)
Language :
English
Title :
Experimental Infection of Specific Pathogen-Free New Zealand White Rabbits with Five Strains of Amyxomatous Myxoma Virus
Publication date :
November 1999
Journal title :
Journal of Comparative Pathology
ISSN :
0021-9975
Publisher :
W. B. Saunders Co., United Kingdom
Volume :
121
Issue :
4
Pages :
369-84
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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