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Review
. 2010 Mar 1;135(5):194-8.

Vaccination strategies against myxomavirus infections: are we really doing the best?

D Marlier  1
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Review

Vaccination strategies against myxomavirus infections: are we really doing the best?

D Marlier. Tijdschr Diergeneeskd. .

Abstract

Vaccination is the best way to control myxomatosis in both pet and production rabbits. Two types of myxomatosis vaccines are commercially available, namely, a vaccine prepared from the Shope fibroma virus (SFV) and one prepared from an attenuated myxoma virus (MV) strain, e.g., SG33. The first one is weakly immunogenic and provides only short-term protection whereas atypical reactions have been described with the second one. This short review describes the vaccine strains and provides some data on the host-virus relationship, resistance, and immunity in myxomatosis. In the last section, recommended myxomatosis vaccination schemes for production and pet animals are presented.

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