Definition of myxomatosis. Meaning of myxomatosis. Synonyms of myxomatosis

- 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...
- vulnerable to myxomatosis. In Europe, fleas are the carriers of myxomatosis. In some countries, annual vaccinations against myxomatosis are available...
- brush rabbits, but causes a severe and usually fatal disease called myxomatosis in European (pet) rabbits. The disease is usually transmitted from one...
- to rabbit po****tions declining rapidly by 1953. Field trials for the myxomatosis virus were carried out in 1936 by the CSIR Division of Animal Health...
- viruses RHD ("rabbit hemorrhagic disease", a form of calicivirus) or myxomatosis. Among the parasites that infect rabbits are tapeworms (such as Taenia...
- unsuccessful attempt to contain the rabbits. The myxoma virus, which causes myxomatosis, was introduced into the rabbit po****tion in the 1950s and had the effect...
- farm in northern France. The spread of the vira lead to a plague of myxomatosis that caused the collapse of rabbit po****tions throughout much of Europe...
- survive to adulthood. Cottontail rabbits show a greater resistance to myxomatosis than European rabbits. Cottontails are one of several species of Sylvilagus...