| Rabbitpox virus | |
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Virus classification 
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| (unranked): | Virus |
| Realm: | Varidnaviria |
| Kingdom: | Bamfordvirae |
| Phylum: | Nucleocytoviricota |
| Class: | Pokkesviricetes |
| Order: | Chitovirales |
| Family: | Poxviridae |
| Genus: | Orthopoxvirus |
| Species: | |
| Virus: | Rabbitpox virus
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Rabbitpox is a disease of rabbits caused by a virus of the genus Orthopoxvirus in the family Poxviridae,[1] and closely related to vaccinia virus.[2] Rabbitpox was first isolated at the Rockefeller Institute in New York in 1933, following a series of epidemics in the laboratory rabbits.[3] It is an acute disease only known to infect laboratory rabbits as no cases have been reported in wild rabbits; it cannot infect humans.[4]
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- ^ Adams MM, Rice AD, Moyer RW (October 2007). "Rabbitpox virus and vaccinia virus infection of rabbits as a model for human smallpox". Journal of Virology. 81 (20): 11084–95. doi:10.1128/JVI.00423-07. PMC 2045566. PMID 17686856.
- ^ C. Upton; Chen, N; Roper, RL; Feng, Z; Hunter, A; Danila, M; Lefkowitz, EJ; Buller, RM; Upton, C (August 12, 2005). "Complete coding sequences of the rabbitpox virus genome" (PDF). Journal of General Virology. 86 (Pt 11): 2969–2977. doi:10.1099/vir.0.81331-0. PMID 16227218. Retrieved 2007-04-03.
- ^ "Rabbitpox". The Merck Veterinary Manual. Retrieved 2007-04-03.