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Myxoma virus in rabbits.
Revue scientifique et technique (International Office of Epizootics) - 1 Apr 1998
Kerr P J, Best S M
Abstract excerpt
Myxoma virus in European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) is one of the best documented examples of host-virus co-evolution. In the natural hosts (Sylvilagus brasiliensis or S. bachmani rabbits in the Americas), myxoma virus causes a benign cutaneous fibroma. In European rabbits, however, myxoma virus causes the fulminant disease, myxomatosis. When introduced into wild European rabbit populations in Australia,...
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