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Detection of RHDVa on the Iberian Peninsula: isolation of an RHDVa strain from a Spanish rabbitry.
Archives of virology - 1 Feb 2014
Abrantes Joana, Lopes Ana M, Dalton Kevin P, Parra Francisco, Esteves Pedro J
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Rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV), genus Lagovirus, family Caliciviridae, causes a large number of deaths in wild and domestic adult European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus). The first documented outbreak dates from 1984 in China, but the virus rapidly dispersed worldwide. In 1997, an antigenic variant was detected in Italy and designated RHDVa. Despite causing symptoms similar to those caused by classic...
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