Publications by authors named "W Niedbalski"
European brown hare syndrome (EBHS) is one of the main causes of mortality in brown hares () and mountain hares () in Europe. Since the mid-1990s, this highly lethal and contagious plague has been widespread in many European countries, contributing to a drastic decline in the number of free-living and farmed hares. A second lagovirus, able to infect some species of hares is rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus 2 (RHDV2; GI.
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- European brown hare syndrome (EBHS) is a deadly disease affecting hares globally, but research on its virus (EBHSV) strains and their epidemiology is still incomplete.
- A study focused on the genetic sequencing of EBHSV strains from Poland, analyzing their genetic relationships and mutations using various regions of the virus genome.
- Results indicated a high genetic homogeneity among Polish EBHSV strains despite different detection times and locations, placing them closely in relation to other European strains, suggesting slow evolutionary changes in this virus.
The aim of this study was the molecular epidemiology of independently introduced RHDV2 strains in Poland. The nucleotide sequences of RHDV2 diagnosed in domestic rabbits in 2018 in the voivodeships of Swietokrzyskie (strain PIN), Malopolskie (strain LIB) and Mazowieckie (strain WAK), and RHDVa from 2015 (strain F77-3) recognized in wild rabbits in Kujawsko-Pomorskie voivodeship were compared to the genome sequences of the first native RHDV2 strains from 2016-2017. The reference sequences available in public databases, the representative for a classical RHDV (G1-G5 genogroups), RHDVa (G6), non-pathogenic caliciviruses (RCV, GI.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this paper we present the first cases of rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus 2 (RHDV2 - GI.2) in Poland. The virus was detected in liver samples of RHD-suspected rabbits from Lodzkie and west Pomeranian voivodeships.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of this study was to characterise the nucleotide and amino acid sequence of complete genomes (7.5 kb) from RHDV strains isolated in Poland and estimate the genetic variability in different elements of the viral RNA. In addition, the sequence of Polish RHDV isolates isolated from 1988-2015 was compared with the sequences of other European RHDV, including the RHDVa and RHDV2/RHDVb subtypes.
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