Journal
RESEARCH IN VETERINARY SCIENCE
Volume 97, Issue 3, Pages 642-645Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.rvsc.2014.10.008
Keywords
Rabbit haemorrhagic disease; Lagovirus RHDV2; Otyctolagus cuniculus; Lepus corsicanus; Host susceptibility
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine
- University of Bari Aldo Moro
- Italian Ministry of Health [PRC 2011007]
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Rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV), a member of the genus Lagovirus, causes rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD), a fatal hepatitis of rabbits, not previously reported in hares. Recently, a new RHDV-related virus emerged, called RHDV2. This lagovirus can cause RHD in rabbits and disease and mortality in Lepus capensis (Cape hare). Here we describe a case of RHDV2 infection in another hare species, Lepus corsicanus, during a concurrent RHD outbreak in a group of wild rabbits. The same RHDV2 strain infected rabbits and a hare, also causing a RHD-like syndrome in the latter. Our findings confirmed the capability of RHDV2 to infect hosts other than rabbits and improve the knowledge about the epidemiology and the host range of this new lagovirus. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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