Epidemiology of Rotavirus Infection in Cattle, Small Ruminants and Horses

ALEJANDRA BADARACCO; LORENA GARAICOECHEA; JELLE MATTHIJNSSENS; VIVIANA PARREÑO

Rotavirus Infections: Epidemiology, Clinical Characteristics and Treatment Options

Nova Science Pub Inc

Lugar: Nueva York; Año: 2014;

Group A Rotavirus (RVA) are naked virus belonging to the Reoviridae family. The virus genome is composed by 11 segments of double stranded RNA. Rotavirus diarrhea is a high morbidity syndrome affecting the young of a large number of animal species. Rotavirus is the main cause of neonatal diarrhea in calves and foals in Argentina and worldwide, strains affecting these two species showed distinct genome constellations. Rotavirus circulation has also been reported in small ruminant as sheep and goats as well as in wild and domestics South American Camelids (llamas, alapacas, guanacos and vicugnas) and old world camelids (Dromedary and Bactrian camelids). The genome analysis of the RVA strain infecting these animal species revealed the presence of a genome constellation specific of the mammalian order Artiodactyla. The present review summarized the results obtained by our group of research over the last twenty years regarding the epidemiology and molecular characterization of RVA circulating in different animal species of economic interest from Argentina, compared with the finding in these species reported worldwide.