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. 2015 Mar 6;7(3):1020–1061. doi: 10.3390/v7031020

Table 1.

The leporipoxviruses.

Virus Natural Host Disease Caused in Natural Host Geographic Distribution of Natural Host
Myxoma virus Sylvilagus brasiliensis (tapeti) Cutaneous fibroma South & Central America
Californian Myxoma virus Sylvilagus bachmani (brush rabbit) Cutaneous fibroma West coast USA & Mexico
Rabbit (Shope) fibroma virus Sylvilagus floridanus (eastern cottontail) Cutaneous fibroma Eastern & central North America to Central and South America
Squirrel fibroma virus Sciurus carolinensis (eastern gray squirrel) 1 Cutaneous epitheliofibroma; may be generalized and involve internal organs Eastern North America; introduced in Europe and Britain
Hare fibroma virus Lepus europaeus (European brown hare) 2 Cutaneous fibroma Europe but widely introduced to other countries
Western squirrel fibroma virus Sciurus griseus griseus (western gray squirrel) Cutaneous thickening West coast of North America

1 Woodchucks (Marmota monax) are also susceptible to experimental infection [10,11]; 2 Lepus californicus (Californian jack rabbit) was susceptible experimentally [12]; poxvirus lesions have also been described in Lepus capensis (Cape hare) in Kenya [13] but no virus characterization was done.