TY - JOUR
T1 - Myxoma virus and rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus 2 coinfection in a European wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus algirus), Portugal
AU - Carvalho, Carina Luisa
AU - dos Santos, Fábio Alexandre Abade
AU - Fagulha, Teresa
AU - Carvalho, Paulo
AU - Mendonça, Paula
AU - Monteiro, Madalena
AU - Duarte, Margarida Dias
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© British Veterinary Association 2020.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Myxoma virus (MYXV) and rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus 2 (RHDV2) are two major pathogens that affect theeuropean rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). Between August 2017 and August 2019, 1166 wild rabbits (971 legally hunted and 195 found dead) were tested by PCR-based methods for MYXV and RHDV2 within the scope of an ongoing surveillance programme on wild leporids in Portugal. Despite never having been reported before and being considered a rare event, coinfection by RHDV2 and MYXV was detected in one juvenile wild rabbit found dead in the Évora district located in Alentejo. The relative frequency of coinfection in the group of diseased rabbits (found dead in the field) was 0.52 per cent (1/195). The positivity percentage of each single virus was much higher, namely, 14.36 per cent (28/195) for MYXV and 55.38 per cent (108/195) for RHDV2, within the 2 years of sample collection considered.
AB - Myxoma virus (MYXV) and rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus 2 (RHDV2) are two major pathogens that affect theeuropean rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). Between August 2017 and August 2019, 1166 wild rabbits (971 legally hunted and 195 found dead) were tested by PCR-based methods for MYXV and RHDV2 within the scope of an ongoing surveillance programme on wild leporids in Portugal. Despite never having been reported before and being considered a rare event, coinfection by RHDV2 and MYXV was detected in one juvenile wild rabbit found dead in the Évora district located in Alentejo. The relative frequency of coinfection in the group of diseased rabbits (found dead in the field) was 0.52 per cent (1/195). The positivity percentage of each single virus was much higher, namely, 14.36 per cent (28/195) for MYXV and 55.38 per cent (108/195) for RHDV2, within the 2 years of sample collection considered.
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U2 - 10.1136/vetreccr-2019-001002
DO - 10.1136/vetreccr-2019-001002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85092312400
SN - 2052-6121
VL - 8
JO - Veterinary Record Case Reports
JF - Veterinary Record Case Reports
IS - 1
M1 - e001002
ER -