Objective: To describe the clinical and histopathologic features as well as response to treatment of a solitary Shope fibroma affecting the eyelid margin of a domestic rabbit. Animal Studied: A seven-year-old female intact domestic rabbit with a progressively enlarging firm, pedunculated, and...

This article reports on a case of cutaneous Shope fibroma virus fibromatosis (Shope fibroma) in a dull and unresponsive adult 1.18-kg female eastern cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus floridanus) which was discovered outside the Zoo Atlanta Conservation Action Resources Center. Highlights of the report...

This article describes the viral skin diseases affecting the domestic rabbit, the most important being myxomatosis. Transmission and pathogenesis, clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment, and control are described and the article will be of interest to veterinary practitioners who treat rabbits. Shope ...

Viral infections of wounds may be more prevalent than the few reported cases in the literature indicate. Rabies usually begins with the bite of an infected host, although transmission has been documented via mucous membrane contamination, aerosols, and corneal and organ transplants. The primary...

A 7-year-old domestic rabbit presented for an enlarging ventral perilimbal mass OS. Keratectomy was performed to remove the mass. A diagnosis of Shope fibroma virus keratitis was confirmed based on signalment, clinical signs, histologic evaluation and virus isolation. Progression of bilateral...

A short review of the discovery of myxomatosis by Sanarelli in 1895, and of history of the introduction of the disease into nature in Australia since 1950, and in Europe since 1952, using the Lausanne strain from Brazil. Further, the production and use of vaccines was discussed, starting with an...

The aim of this paper was to present vaccines against infectious myxomatosis of rabbits. Myxomatosis, highly infectious generalized disease of European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus), is caused by myxoma virus (MV), the poxvirus from Leporipoxvirus genus. It can be mosquito or flea or contact...

Shope fibroma virus (SFV) is one of the few poxviruses that induce cutaneous tumours, whereas myxoma virus, a closely related leporipoxvirus, does not. However, both have a virally encoded homologue of the epidermal growth factor (namely SFGF and MGF, respectively) that is considered to be crucial...

One of the most severe European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) pathogens is myxoma virus (MYXV), a rabbit-specific leporipoxvirus that causes the highly lethal disease myxomatosis. Other leporid genera, Sylvilagus and Lepus, encompass species with variable susceptibilities to MYXV, but these do not ...

Naturally occurring viral infections of the European rabbit are reviewed. Viruses mentioned include myxomatosis, Shope rabbit fibroma virus, herpesvirus infections, papillomatosis, rotavirus, coronavirus and calicivirus. Epidemiology, pathology, symptoms, diagnosis and prophylaxis of the viruses...