
%0 Journal Article
%A Parer, I. 
%A Conolly, D. 
%A Sobey, W. R. 
%T Myxomatosis: the effects of annual introductions of an immunizing strain and a highly virulent strain of myxoma virus into rabbit populations at Urana, N.S.W.
%J Wildlife Research
%D 1985/10/01
%V 12
%N 3
%P 407-423
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/WR9850407
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/WR9850407 
%X A very attenuated strain of myxomatosis was introduced annually into two rabbit populations from 1978 to 1980, to protect susceptible rabbits from the effects of the field strains of myxomatosis. Within 2 years one population had increased by a factor of eight and the other by a factor of 12. The results indicate that myxomatosis is still an important factor in suppressing those populations of rabbits. After 4 years of introducing a highly virulent strain of myxomatosis into two populations the number of adult rabbits had not declined. 
