leporipoxvirus

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

leporipoxvirus (plural leporipoxviruses)

1. Any of the genus Leporipoxvirus of viruses, in the family Poxviridae, associated with myxomatosis in lagomorphs.
   • 2015 July 6, “A Century of Shope Papillomavirus in Museum Rabbit Specimens”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     If it is possible to confirm there is no inhibition, a differential diagnosis could be undertaken in negative samples, including Rabbit Oral Papillomavirus, which would not be amplified by the primers used in this study, Shope fibromavirus or Myxoma virus, both caused by two leporipoxviruses (Poxviridae), for which the clinical presentation is slightly different.