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Vet Res ; 45: 26, 2014 Mar 04.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24589193

ABSTRACT

The role of maternal antibodies is to protect newborns against acute early infection by pathogens. This can be achieved either by preventing any infection or by allowing attenuated infections associated with activation of the immune system, the two strategies being based on different cost/benefit ratios. We carried out an epidemiological survey of myxomatosis, which is a highly lethal infectious disease, in two distant wild populations of rabbits to describe the epidemiological pattern of the disease. Detection of specific IgM and IgG enabled us to describe the pattern of immunity. We show that maternal immunity attenuates early infection of juveniles and enables activation of their immune system. This mechanism associated with steady circulation of the myxoma virus in both populations, which induces frequent reinfections of immune rabbits, leads to the maintenance of high immunity levels within populations. Thus, myxomatosis has a low impact, with most infections being asymptomatic. This work shows that infection of young rabbits protected by maternal antibodies induces attenuated disease and activates their immune system. This may play a major role in reducing the impact of a highly lethal disease when ecological conditions enable permanent circulation of the pathogen.


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Adaptive Immunity , Immunity, Herd , Myxoma virus/physiology , Myxomatosis, Infectious/immunology , Rabbits , Age Factors , Animals , Antibodies, Viral/blood , Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay/veterinary , Female , France/epidemiology , Immunoglobulin G/blood , Immunoglobulin M/blood , Male , Myxomatosis, Infectious/epidemiology , Myxomatosis, Infectious/virology
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Virology ; 410(2): 395-402, 2011 Feb 20.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21195443

ABSTRACT

The existence of non-pathogenic RHDV strains was established when a non-lethal virus named rabbit calicivirus (RCV) was characterised in 1996 in Italy. Since then, different RNA sequences related to RHDV have been detected in apparently healthy domestic and wild rabbits, and recently a new lagovirus was identified in Australia. We have characterised from seropositive healthy domestic rabbits a non-lethal lagovirus that differs from RHDV in terms of pathogenicity, tissue tropism and capsid protein sequence. Phylogenetic analyses have revealed that it is close to the Ashington strain and to the RCV, but distinct. We proved experimentally that it is infectious but non-pathogenic and demonstrated that, contrary to the other described non-pathogenic lagoviruses, it induces antibodies that do not protect against RHDV. Our results indicate the existence of a gradient of cross-protection between circulating strains, from non-protective, partially protective to protective strains, and highlight the extent of diversity within the genus Lagovirus.


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Bunyaviridae Infections/veterinary , Carrier State/veterinary , Lagovirus/classification , Lagovirus/isolation & purification , Animals , Antibodies, Viral/blood , Bunyaviridae Infections/immunology , Bunyaviridae Infections/virology , Carrier State/virology , Cluster Analysis , Cross Protection , Hemorrhagic Disease Virus, Rabbit/genetics , Lagovirus/genetics , Lagovirus/pathogenicity , Molecular Sequence Data , Phylogeny , RNA, Viral/genetics , Rabbits , Sequence Analysis, DNA , Sequence Homology
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