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Myxomatosis in a Californian Brush Rabbit (Sylvilagus bachmani)

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SINCE myxomatosis was first reported near San Diego in 19301,2 there have been sporadic outbreaks of the disease in commercial rabbitries along the coast at least as far north as San Francisco. Sharp outbreaks of a disease highly lethal for European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) have been interspersed with long quiescent periods ; a pattern which suggests that the disease is maintained elsewhere than in European rabbits used for commercial purposes. Although it has been suggested2,3 that wild rabbits (Sylvilagus spp.) might be the reservoir, this has never been demonstrated.

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  1. I. D. MARSHALL: On leave from the Department of Microbiology, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. The present appointment is supported by the International Co-operation Administration under the Visiting Research Scientists Programme administered by the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

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  1. Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California

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  2. Department of Biology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California

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MARSHALL, I., REGNERY, D. Myxomatosis in a Californian Brush Rabbit (Sylvilagus bachmani). Nature 188, 73–74 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/188073b0

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