Bibliography for viral infections

General References for Virus Diseases

Boucher, S. & Nouaille, L. (2013) Maladies des Lapins, 3rd edn. Editions France Agricole.

Brabb, T. & DiGiacomo, R.F. (2012) Viral diseases.

Kerr, P.J. & Donnelly, T.M. (2013) Viral infections of rabbits. Veteri­nary Clinics of North America Exotic Animal Practice 16:437-468.

MacLachlan, N.J. & Dubovi, E.J. (2011) Fenner's Veterinary Virology, 4th edn. Academic Press, New York.

DNA Viral Infections

Adenovirus Infection

Bodon, L. & Prohaska, P. (1980) Isolation of adenovirus from rabbits with diarrhoea. Acta Veterinaria Academiae Scientiarum Hungarica 28:247-255.

Descoteaux, J., Whissel, K., & Assaf, R. (1980) Detection of antibody titers to bovine adenoviruses in rabbit sera. Laboratory Animal Science 30:581-582.

Herpesvirus Infections

Brash, M.L., Nagy, E., Pei, Y., Carman, S., Emery, S., Smith, A.E., & Turner, P.V. (2010) Acute hemorrhagic and necrotizing pneu­monia, splenitis, and dermatitis in a pet rabbit caused by a novel herpesvirus (leporid herpesvirus-4). Canadian Veterinary Journal 51:1383-1386.

de Matos, R., Russell, D., Van Alstine, W., & Miller, A. (2014) Spontaneous fatal human herpesvirus 1 encephalitis in two domestic rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus). Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation 26 I (5): 689-694.

Grest, P., Albicker, P., Hoelzle, L., Wild, P., & Pospischil, A. (2002) Herpes simplex encephalitis in a domestic rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). Journal of Comparative Pathology 126:308-311.

Hesselton, R.M., Yang, W.C., Medveczky, P., & Sullivan, J.L. (1988) Pathogenesis of Herpesvirus sylvilagus infection in cottontail rabbits. American Journal of Pathology 133:639-647.

Hinze, H.C. (1971) Induction of lymphoid hyperplasia and lym­phoma-like disease in rabbits by Herpesvirus sylvilagus. Interna­tional Journal of Cancer 8:514-522.

Hinze, H.C. (1971) A new member of the herpesvirus group isolated from wild cottontail rabbits. Infection and Immunity 3:350-354. Jin, L., Lohr, C.V., Vanarsdall, A.L., Baker, R.J., Moerdyk-Schau- wecker, M., Levine, C., Gerlach, R.F., Cohen, S.A., Alvarado, D.E., & Rohrmann, G.F. (2008) Characterization of a novel alphaherpesvirus associated with fatal infections of domestic rabbits. Virology 378:13-20.

Jin, L., Valentine, B.A., Baker, R.J., Lohr, C.V., Gerlach, R.F., Bildfell, R.J., & Moerdyk-Schauwecker, M. (2008) An outbreak of fatal herpesvirus infection in domestic rabbits in Alaska. Veterinary Pathology 45:369-374.

Muller, K., Fuchs, W., Heblinski, N., Teifke, J.P., Brunnberg, L., Gruber, A.D., & Klopfleisch, R. (2009) Encephalitis in a rabbit caused by human herpesvirus-1. Journal of the American Veteri­nary Medical Association 235:66-69.

Onderka, D.F., Papp-Vid, G., & Perry, A.W. (1992) Fatal herpesvirus infection in commercial rabbits. Canadian Veterinary Journal 33:539-543.

Rivers, T.M. & Tillett, W.S. (1923) Further observations on the phenomena encountered in attempting to transmit varicella to rabbits. Journal of Experimental Medicine 39:777-802.

Sekulin, K., Jankova, J., Kolodziejek, J. Huemer, H.P., Gruber, A., Meyer, J., & Nowotny, N. (2010) Natural zoonotic infections in two marmosets and one domestic rabbit with herpes simplex virus type 1 did not reveal a correlation with a certain gG-, gI- or gE genotype. Clinical Microbiology and Infection 16:1669-1672.

Sunohara-Neilson, J.R., Brash, M. Carman, S., Nagy, E., & Turner, P.V. (2013) Experimental infection of New Zealand White rab­bits (Oryctolagus cuniculi) with leporid herpesvirus 4. Compara­tive Medicine 63:422-431.

Swan, C., Perry, A., & Papp-Vid, G. (1991) Herpesvirus-like viral infection in a rabbit.

Weissenbock, J.A., Hainfellner, J.A., Berger, J., & Budka, H. (1997) Naturally-occurring herpes simplex encephalitis in a domestic rabbit. Veterinary Pathology 34:44-47.

Zygraich, N., Berge, E., Brucher, J.M., Hoorens, J., & Huygelen, C. (1972) Experimental infection of rabbits and monkeys with Herpesvirus cuniculi. Research in Veterinary Science 13:241-244.

Papillomavirus Infections

Krieder, J.W. & Bartlett, G.L. (1981) The Shope papilloma-carci­noma complex of rabbits: a model system of neoplastic progres­sion and spontaneous regression. Advances in Cancer Research 35:81-110.

Maglennon, G.A., McIntosh, P., & Doorbar, J. (2011) Persistence of viral DNA in the epithelial basal layer suggests a model for papillomavirus latency following immune regression. Virology 414:153-163.

Munday, J.S., Aberdein, D., Squires, R.A., Alfaras, A., & Wilson, A.M. (2007) Persistent conjunctival papilloma due to oral papilloma­virus infection in a rabbit in New Zealand. Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science. 46:69-71.

Shope, R.E. (1937) Immunization of rabbits to infectious papillo­matosis. Journal of Experimental Medicine 65:607-624.

Weisbroth, S.H. & Scher, S. (1970) Spontaneous oral papillomatosis in rabbits. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 157:1940-1944.

Parvovirus Infection

Matsunaga, Y. & Chino, I. (1981) Experimental infection of young rabbits with rabbit parvovirus. Archives of Virology 68:257-264.

Matsunaga, Y., Matsumo, S., & Mukoyama, J. (1977) Isolation and characterization of a parvovirus of rabbits. Infection and Immu­nity 18:495-500.

Metcalf, J.B., Lederman, M., Stout, E.R., & Bates, R.C. (1989) Natural parvovirus infection in laboratory rabbits. American Journal of Veterinary Research 50:1048-1051.

Polyomavirus Infection

Hartley, J.W. & Rowe, W.P. (1966) New papovavirus contaminating Shope papillomata.

Poxvirus Infections

Adams, M.M., Rice, A.D., & Moyer, R.W. (2007) Rabbitpox virus and vaccinia virus infection of rabbits as a model for human small­pox. Journal of Virology 81:11084-11095.

Bedson, H.S. & Duckworth, M.J. (1963) Rabbit pox: an experimen­tal study of the pathways of infection in rabbits. Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology 85:1-20.

Best, S.M., Collins, S.V., & Kerr, P.J. (2000) Coevolution of host and virus: cellular localization of virus in myxoma virus infection of resistant and susceptible European rabbits. Virology 277:76-91.

Fenner, F. (1990) Poxviruses of laboratory animals. Laboratory Ani­mal Science 40:469-480.

Fenner, F. & Radcliffe, F.N. (1965) Myxomatosis. Cambridge Uni­versity Press, London and New York.

Green, H.S.N. (1934) Rabbit pox. I. Clinical manifestations and course of the disease. Journal of Experimental Medicine 60:427-440.

Green, H.S.N. (1934) Rabbit pox. II. Pathology of the epidemic disease. Journal of Experimental Medicine 60:441-457.

Grilli, G., Piccirillo, A., Pisoni, A.M., Cerioli, M., Gallazzi, D., & Lavazza, A. (2003) Re-emergence of fibromatosis in farmed game hares (Lepus europaeus) in Italy. Veterinary Record 153:152-153.

Hurst, E.W. (1937) Myxoma and Shope fibroma. 1. The histology of myxoma. British Journal of Experimental Pathology 18:1-15.

Joiner, G.N., Jardine, J.H., & Gleiser, C.A. (1971) An epizootic of Shope fibromatosis in a commercial rabbitry. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 159:1583-1587.

Marcato, P.S. & Simoni, P. (1977) Ultrastructural researches on rabbit myxomatosis: lymphnodal lesions. Veterinary Pathology 14:361-367.

Patton, N.M. & Holmes, H.T. (1977) Myxomatosis in domestic rabbits in Oregon. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 171:560-562.

Silvers, L., Inglis, B., Labudovic, A., Janssens, P.A., van Leeuwen, B.H., & Kerr, P.J. (2006) Virulence and pathogenesis of the MSW and MSD strains of California myxoma virus in European rabbits with genetic resistance to myxomatosis compared to rabbits with no genetic resistance.

Wibbelt, G. & Frolich, K. (2005) Infectious diseases in European brown hare (Lepus europaeus). Wildlife Biology in Practice 1:86-93.

RNA Viral Infections

Astrovirus Infection

Martella, V., Moschidou, P., Pinto, P., Catella, C., Desario, C., Larocca, V., Circella, E., Banyal, K., Lavazza, A., Magistrali, C., Decaro, N., & Buonavoglia, C. (2011) Astroviruses in rabbits. Emerging Infectious Diseases 12:2287-2293.

Stenglein, M.D., Velazquez, E., Greenacre, C., Wilkes, R.P., Ruby, J.G., Lankton, J.S., Ganem, D., Kennedy, M.A., & DeRisi, J.L. (2012) Complete genome sequence of an astrovirus identified in a domestic rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) with gastroenteritis. Virology Journal 9:216.

Borna Virus Infection

Krey, H., Ludwig, H., & Rott, R. (1979) Spread of infectious virus along the optic nerve into the retina in Borna disease virus- infected rabbits. Archives of Virology 61:283-288.

Metzler, A., Ehrensperger, F., & Wyler, R. (1978) Natural borna virus infection in rabbits. Zentralblatt fur Veterinarmedizen B 25:161-164.

Roddendorf, W., Sasaki, S., & Ludwig, H. (1983) Light microscope and immunohistochemical investigations on the brain of Borna disease virus-infected rabbits. Neuropathology and Applied Neuro­biology 9:287-296.

Calicivirus Infections

Abrantes, J., Lopes, A.M., Dalton, K.P., Melo, P., Correia, J.J., Ramada, M., Alves, P.C., Parra, F., & Esteves, P.J. (2013) New variant of rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus, Portugal, 2012-2013. Emerging Infectious Diseases 19:1900-1902.

Abrantes, J., van der Loo, W., Le Pendu, J., & Esteves, P.J. (2012) Rabbit hemorrhagic disease (RHD) and rabbit hemorrhagic dis­ease virus (RHDV): a review. Veterinary Research 43:12-19.

Bergin, I.L., Wise, A.G., Bolin, S.R., Mullaney, T.P., Kiupel, M., & Maes, R.K. (2009) Novel calicivirus identified in rabbits, Michigan, USA. Emerging Infectious Diseases 15:1955-1962. (Abrantes, J. & Esteves, P.J.

Dalton, K.P., Nicieza, I., Balseiro, A., Muguerza, M.A., Rosell, J.M., Casais, R., Alvarez, A.L., & Parra, F. (2012) Variant rabbit hem­orrhagic disease virus in young rabbits, Spain. Emerging Infectious Diseases 18:2009-2012.

Marcato, P.S., Benazzi, C., Vecchi, G., Galeotti, M., Della Salda, L., Sarli, G., & Lucidi, P. (1991) Clinical and pathological features of viral hemorrhagic disease of rabbits and the European brown hare syndrome. Revue Scientifique et Technique (International Office of Epizootics) 10:371-392.

Martin-Alonso, J.M., Skilling, D.E., Gonzalez-Molleda, L., del Barrio, G., Machin, A., Keefer, N.K., Matson, D.O., Iversen, P.L., Smith, A.W., & Parra, F. (2005) Isolation and characteriza­tion of a new vesivirus from rabbits. Virology 337:373-383.

Wibbelt, G. & Frolich, K. (2005) Infectious diseases in European brown hare (Lepus europaeus). Wildlife Biology in Practice 1:86-93.

Coronavirus Infections

Christensen, N., Fennestad, K.L., & Brunn, L. (1978) Pleural effu­sion disease in rabbits: histopathological observations. Acta Pathologica et Microbiologica Scandinavica (A) 86:251-256.

Deeb, B.J., DiGiacomo, R.E., Evermann, J.E., & Thouless, M.E. (1993) Prevalence of coronavirus antibodies in rabbits. Labora­tory Animal Science 43:431-433.

Descoteaux, J.-P. & Lussier, G. (1990) Experimental infection of young rabbits with a rabbit enteric coronavirus. Canadian Jour­nal of Veterinary Research 54:473-476.

Eaton, P. (1984) Preliminary observations on enteritis associated with a coronavirus-like agent in rabbits. Laboratory Animals 18:71-74.

Edwards, S., Small, J., Geratz, J. Alexander, L., & Baric, R. (1992) An experimental model for myocarditis and congestive heart failure after rabbit coronavirus infection. Journal of Infectious Diseases 165:134-140.

LaPierre, J., Marsolais, G., Pilon, P., & Descoteaux, J.P. (1980) Preliminary report of a coronavirus in the intestine of the laboratory rabbit. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 26:1204-1208.

Lau, S.K.P., Woo, P.C.Y., Yip, C.C.Y., Fan, R.Y.Y., Huang, Y., Wang, M., Guo, R., Lam, C.S.F., Tsang, A.K.L., Lai, K.K.Y., Chan, K.-H., Che, X.-Y., & Zheng, B.-J. (2012) Isolation and characterization of a novel Betacoronavirus subgroup A coronavirus, rabbit coro­navirus HKU14, from domestic rabbits. Journal of Virology 86:5481-5496.

Osterhaus, A.D.M.E., Teppema, J.S., & Van Steenis, G. (1982) Coronavirus-like particles in laboratory rabbits with different syndromes in the Netherlands. Laboratory Animal Science 32:663-665.

Peeters, J.E., Pohl, Pl, & Charlier, G. (1984) Infectious agents associated with diarrhea in commercial rabbits: a field study. Annales de Recherches Veterinaraires 15:335-340.

Small, J.D., Aurelian, L. Squire, R.A., Strandberg, J.D., Melby, E.C., Turner, T.B., & Newman, B. (1979) Rabbit cardiomyopathy associated with a virus antigenically related to human corona­virus strain 229E. American Journal of Pathology 95:709-729.

Hepatitis £ Virus Infection

Cossaboom, C.M., Cordoba, L., Dryman, B.A., & Meng, X-J. (2011) Hepatitis E virus in rabbits, Virginia, USA. Emerging Infectious Diseases 17:2047-2049.

Liu, P., Bu, Q.-N., Wang, L., Han, J., Du, R.-J., Lei, Y.-X., Ouyang, Y.-Q., Li, J., Zhu, Y.-H., Lu, F.-M., & Zhuang, H. (2013) Trans­mission of hepatitis E virus from rabbits to cynomolgus macaques. Emerging Infectious Diseases 19:559-565

Ma, H., Zheng, L., Liu, Y., Zhao, C., Harrison, T.J., Ma, Y., Sun, S., Zhang, J., & Wang, Y. (2010) Experimental infection of rabbits with rabbit and genotypes 1 and 4 hepatitis E viruses. PLoS One 5:e9160.

Paramyxovirus Infection

Ducatelle, R., Vanrompay, D., & Charlier, G. (2010) Paramyxovirus associated with pneumonia in a dwarf rabbit. World Rabbit Science 2:47-52.

Iwai, H., Machii, K., Ohtsuka, Y., Ueda, K., Inoue, S., Matsumoto, T., & Satoh, Z. (1986) Prevalence of antibodies to Sendai virus and rotavirus in laboratory rabbits. Experimental Animals 35:491-494.

Machii, K., Otsuka, Y., Iwai, H., & Ueda, K. (1989) Infection in rabbits with Sendai virus. Laboratory Animal Science 39:334-337.

Rabies Virus Infection

Childs, J.E., Colby, L., Krebs, J.W., Strine, T., Feller, M., Noah, D., Drenzek, C., Smith, J.S., & Rupprecht, C.E. (1997) Surveillance and spatiotemporal associations of rabies in rodents and lago- morphs in the United States, 1985-1994. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 33:20-27.

Eidson, M., Matthews, S.D., Willsey, A.L., Cherry, B., Rudd, R.J., & Trimarchi, C.V. (2005) Rabies virus infection in a pet guinea pig and seven pet rabbits. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 227:932-935.

Karp, B.E. (1999) Rabies in two privately owned domestic rabbits. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 215:1824-1827.

Rotavirus Infection

Banyai, K., Forgach, P., Erdelyi, K., Martella, V., Bogdan, A., Hocsak, E., Havasi, V., Melegh, B., & Szucs, G. (2005) Identification of the novel lapine rotavirus genotype P[22] from an outbreak of enteritis in a Hungarian rabbitry. Virus Research 113:73-80.

Ciarlet, M., Gilger, M.A., Barone, C., McArthur, M., Estes, M.K., & Conner, M.E. (1998) Rotavirus disease, but not infection and development of intestinal histopathological lesions, is age restricted in rabbits. Virology 251:343-360.

Conner, M.E., Estes, M.K., & Graham, D.Y. (1988) Rabbit model of rotavirus infection. Journal of Virology 62:1625-1633.

DiGiacomo, R.F. & Thouless, M.E. (1986) Epidemiology of naturally occurring rotavirus infection in rabbits. Laboratory Animal Science 36:153-156.

Petric, M., Middleton, P.J., Grant, C., Tam, J.S., & Hewitt, C.M. (1978) Lapine rotavirus: preliminary studies on epizootiology and transmission. Canadian Journal of Comparative Medicine 42:143-147.

Schoeb, T.R., Casebolt, D.B., Walker, V.E., Potgieter, L.N., Thouless, M.E., & DiGiacomo, R.F. (1986) Rotavirus-associated diarrhea in a commercial rabbitry. Laboratory Animal Science 36:149-152.

Schoondermark-van de Ven, E., Van Ranst, M., de Bruin, W., van den Hurk, P., Zeller, M., Matthijnssens, J., & Heylen, E. (2013) Rabbit colony infected with a bovine-like G6P[11] rota­virus strain. Veterinary Microbiology 166:154-164.

Thouless, M.E., DiGiacomo, R.F., Deeb, B.J., & Howard, H. (1988) Pathogenicity of rotavirus in rabbits. Journal of Clinical Micro­biology 26:943-947.

Thouless, M.E., et al. (1996) The effect of combined rotavirus and Escherichia coli infections in rabbits. Laboratory Animal Science 46:381-385.

Endogenized Viruses

Bedigian, H.G., Fox, R.R., & Meier, H. (1978) Induction of type C RNA virus from cultured rabbit lymphosarcoma cells. Journal of Virology 27:313-319.

Griffiths, D.J., Voisset, C., Venables, P.J.W., & Weiss, R.A. (2002) Novel endogenous retrovirus in rabbits previously reported as human retrovirus 5. Journal of Virology 76:7094-7102.

Heidmann, O., Vernochet, C., Dupressoir, A., & Heidman, T. (2009) Identification of an endogenous retroviral envelope gene with fusogenic activity and placenta-specific expression in the rabbit: a new "syncytin" in a third order of mammals. Retrovirology 6:107.

Horie, M. & Tomonaga, K. (2011) Non-retroviral fossils in verte­brate genomes. Viruses 3:1836-1848.

Katzourakis, A., Tristem, M., Pybus, O.G., & Gifford, R.J. (2007) Discovery and analysis of the first endogenous lentivirus. Pro­ceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:6261-6265.