myxomatosis viruses การใช้

• One situation that illustrates this preference well was the outbreak of the myxomatosis virus in rabbits in Britain in the 1950s.
• The myxomatosis virus was illegally imported and illegally released, but it had little lasting effect upon the rabbit population other than to make it more resistant to the virus.
• The myxomatosis virus does not replicate in these insect hosts, but can be physically carried by an insect's mouthparts, i . e . from an infected rabbit to another susceptible animal.
• However, by 2005  fifty years later  a survey of reported that the rabbit populations had increased three-fold every two years, likely as a result of increasing genetic resistance, or acquired immunity to the Myxomatosis virus.
• Burnet's major achievements in microbiology included discovering the causative agents of Q-fever and psittacosis; developing assays for the isolation, culture and detection of influenza virus; describing the recombination of influenza strains; demonstrating that the myxomatosis virus does not cause disease in humans.