This article is about the disease in rabbits. For the Radiohead song, see Hail to the Thief.
Myxoma virus
Myxoma virus (transmission electron microscope)
Virus classification
(unranked):
Virus
Realm:
Varidnaviria
Kingdom:
Bamfordvirae
Phylum:
Nucleocytoviricota
Class:
Pokkesviricetes
Order:
Chitovirales
Family:
Poxviridae
Genus:
Leporipoxvirus
Species:
Myxoma virus
Myxomatosis is a disease caused by Myxoma virus, a poxvirus in the genus Leporipoxvirus. The natural hosts are tapeti (Sylvilagus brasiliensis) in South and Central America, and brush rabbits (Sylvilagus bachmani) in North America. The myxoma virus causes only a mild disease in these species, but causes a severe and usually fatal disease in European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus).
Myxomatosis is an example of what occurs when a virus jumps from a species adapted to the virus to a naive host, and has been extensively studied for this reason.[citation needed] The virus was intentionally introduced in Australia, France, and Chile in the 1950s to control wild European rabbit populations.[citation needed]
Myxomatosis is a disease caused by Myxoma virus, a poxvirus in the genus Leporipoxvirus. The natural hosts are tapeti (Sylvilagus brasiliensis) in South...
effects on local biodiversity. Its decline in its native range due to myxomatosis, rabbit hemorrhagic disease, overhunting and habitat loss has caused...
spread through direct contact and contaminated fomites.[citation needed] Myxomatosis is the name of the lethal disseminated disease that occurs when European...
to rabbit populations declining rapidly by 1953. Field trials for the myxomatosis virus were carried out in 1936 by the CSIR Division of Animal Health...
brush rabbits, but causes a severe and usually fatal disease called myxomatosis in European (pet) rabbits. The disease is usually transmitted from one...
viruses RHD ("rabbit hemorrhagic disease", a form of calicivirus) or myxomatosis. Among the parasites that infect rabbits are tapeworms (such as Taenia...
vulnerable to myxomatosis. In Europe, fleas are the carriers of myxomatosis. In some countries, annual vaccinations against myxomatosis are available...
by widespread, unsightly skin lesions. And most people have heard of myxomatosis, which is a fatal pox virus infection of rabbits: once infected they...
survive to adulthood. Cottontail rabbits show a greater resistance to myxomatosis than European rabbits. Cottontails are one of several species of Sylvilagus...
unsuccessful attempt to contain the rabbits. The myxoma virus, which causes myxomatosis, was introduced into the rabbit population in the 1950s and had the effect...
transmit Rickettsia typhi, Rickettsia felis, Bartonella henselae, and the myxomatosis virus.: 73 They can carry Hymenolepiasis tapeworms and Trypanosome protozoans...
Watership Down which is a name the rabbits use for the real illness myxomatosis that affects rabbits causing blindness and death. Wildcard coccus A Certain...
prey species, the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), caused by myxomatosis and rabbit haemorrhagic disease. Fossils indicate that the species has...
having increased between the 1960s and mid 1990s since the end of the myxomatosis epidemic. Typically, male stoats prey on rabbits more frequently than...
off an event that meant an awful lot to an awful lot of people". For "Myxomatosis", a song built on a driving fuzz bassline, Radiohead sought to recreate...
series of biological controls into Australia, such as the introduction of myxomatosis and rabbit calicivirus for the control of rabbit populations. CSIRO is...
£1,150. In the 1950s, the society warned people about the danger of myxomatosis. It carried out a survey of rabbit owners to try to manage the effects...
sometimes cattle. Rabbits used to play a part but due to the onset of myxomatosis their numbers decreased so dramatically that they no longer have much...
describing the recombination of influenza strains; demonstrating that the myxomatosis virus does not cause disease in humans. Modern methods for producing...
orange production by 70% since 2005. Natural viral diseases, such as myxomatosis and rabbit hemorrhagic disease, have been used to help control pest populations...
primates Mousepox, an iatrogenic infectious disease of laboratory mice Myxomatosis, "wild rabbitpox", an infectious disease of wild rabbits Pigeonpox, an...
European rabbits, which comprised about 58% of this species' diet before myxomatosis and rabbit haemorrhagic disease greatly reduced the rabbit's native Iberian...
species in this genus. Diseases associated with this genus include: myxomatosis. The genus contains the following species: Hare fibroma virus Myxoma...
with the subversive black humour of the show, Mixy is named after the myxomatosis disease, introduced to Australia to reduce the population of feral rabbits...
The island once supported a vast colony of rabbits. When the disease myxomatosis arrived in Britain, during 1953 from France, the mainland population...
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