myxomatosis
myxomatosis
Definition
myxo·ma·to·sis (mik′sə mə tō′sis)
myxomatosis
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- catch: If a vaccinated rabbit does catch myxomatosis the disease is usually mild and confined to the skin.
- cause: The virus causing myxomatosis is transmitted between infected and healthy rabbits by insects, particularly rabbit fleas, but also by flies.
- transmit: As mosquitoes were already known to mechanically transmit myxomatosis, the team used this disease as a model system.
- contract: Vaccination does not guarantee that a rabbit will not contract myxomatosis, there is still a small risk.
- include: The standard rabbit vaccination, which includes myxomatosis, costs about GBP 25 [ USD 48 ] .
- remember: However, do remember that Myxomatosis can affect animals during any month of the year.
Noun used with modifier
- disease: The disease myxomatosis in rabbits is caused by a virus.
- virus: In the early 1950s the virus myxomatosis occurred in Britain.
Adjective modifier
- most: Incidentally, most Myxomatosis in Britain occurs in the late summer, autumn and early winter months.
Modifies a noun
- virus: This vaccine utilizes a virus called the shope fibroma virus which is closely related to the myxomatosis virus but does not cause disease.
- vaccine: You may have heard of it because myxomatosis vaccine is made from a special strain of this virus.
- vaccination: At 6 weeks the Babies can have their Myxomatosis Vaccination.
- outbreak: Posted 15 December 2004 Myxomatosis outbreak in Huddersfield could see thousands die!
Preposition: in
- 1950s: Their numbers have increased greatly over the last two decades following a decline of rabbits due to myxomatosis in the 1950s.
- rabbit: The disease myxomatosis in rabbits is caused by a virus.
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