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Three people walking through grasslands with old cattle yards and mountains in the background

Autumn field work

The team completed their quarterly field sampling last week with the support of ACT Parks rangers. 

Microscope image of a rabbit intestinal organoid with cell nuclei stained in blue and stem cells stained in green. The organoid appears as a ring of cells on a black background with a black central lumen, like a cross-section through the intestinal tube.

Could ‘organoids’ help optimise rabbit virus management?

Congratulations to post-doctoral scientist Egi Kardia who recently had her work on rabbit intestinal organoids published in the journal Scientific […]

Recombination in Australian rabbit caliciviruses

Congratulations to our team who have just submitted a paper studying recombination in rabbit caliciviruses in Australia! We’ve prepared a […]

Stacked bar chart showing the number of isolates of each RHDV variant detected during September and October 2020 coloured by state. RHDV2 was the most frequent variant detected in all states. K5 was detected in WA and SA. RHDV1 was not detected. 16 samples were negative for RHDV.

October update

RHDV2 continues to be the dominant virus detected and has been particularly active in WA during September and October.

70 years of myxo

It's been 70 years since myxoma virus was released in Australia. Landline took a look at the history behind the […]

New paper!

We compared the types of bacteria found in poop between rabbits and hares, living in a periurban nature reserve in Canberra.

May

May 2020 testing summary

Rabbit calicivirus was detected in WA, VIC, TAS, and NSW for samples collected mostly in April and May*. RHDV2 continues […]

A desert cottontail rabbit in the wild

A deadly virus is killing wild rabbits in North America

RHDV2 has recently emerged in North America and is devastating their native rabbit and hare species.

RHDV1 detection in Victoria

Quick update from our diagnostic lab

Flies in a fly trap for testing

Blowflies enlisted by CSIRO scientists to help track calicivirus in feral rabbits

Here's another story on our work using blowflies as an environmental surveillance tool for RHDV!

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