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Myxoma virus

Known as: Myxomatosis Virus, Poxvirus Myxomatis, Myxomatosis Viruses 
The type species of LEPORIPOXVIRUS causing infectious myxomatosis, a severe generalized disease, in rabbits. Tumors are not always present.
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Review
2015
Review
2015
Myxoma Virus and the Leporipoxviruses: An Evolutionary Paradigm
Myxoma virus (MYXV) is the type species of the Leporipoxviruses, a genus of Chordopoxvirinae, double stranded DNA viruses, whose… 
Review
2012
Review
2012
Myxomatosis in Australia and Europe: a model for emerging infectious diseases.
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Infection of human cancer cells with myxoma virus requires Akt activation via interaction with a viral ankyrin-repeat host range factor.
We demonstrate that the susceptibility of human cancer cells to be infected and killed by an oncolytic poxvirus, myxoma virus (MV… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Myxoma virus is a novel oncolytic virus with significant antitumor activity against experimental human gliomas.
Myxoma virus, a poxvirus previously considered rabbit specific, can replicate productively in a variety of human tumor cells in… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Disruption of Erk-dependent type I interferon induction breaks the myxoma virus species barrier
Myxoma virus, a member of the poxvirus family, causes lethal infection only in rabbits, but the mechanism underlying the strict… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
Immune responses to myxoma virus.
Myxoma virus causes the systemic disease myxomatosis in the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). Originating in the South… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Coevolution of host and virus: the pathogenesis of virulent and attenuated strains of myxoma virus in resistant and susceptible European rabbits.
Myxoma virus was introduced into the European rabbit population of Australia in 1950. Although the virus was initially highly… 
Review
1998
Review
1998
Myxoma virus in rabbits.
Myxoma virus in European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) is one of the best documented examples of host-virus co-evolution. In… 
Review
1995
Review
1995
Interruption of cytokine networks by poxviruses: lessons from myxoma virus
Myxoma virus is an infectious poxvirus pathogen that induces a virulent systemic disease called myxomatosis in European rabbits… 
Review
1957
Review
1957
A comparison of the virulence for European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) of strains of myxoma virus recovered in the field in Australia, Europe and America
Strains of myxoma virus associated with a case-mortality rate in wild rabbits of 90—95% can be distinguished from those… 
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