Journal
VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 149, Issue 1-2, Pages 248-253Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2010.11.007
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Rotavirus; Genotyping; Equine; Foals; Italy
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- ISS/NIH
- Ministry of Health, Italy
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A total of 47 stool samples were collected at the same stud farm from young foals with rotavirus diarrhoea and from their stud mares. Illness involved foals during three consecutive winter seasons. Infection in the farm appeared firstly in January-February 2008. After vanishing in the warm seasons, cases reappeared in March 2009 and 2010. Determination of the rotavirus G- and P-types was carried out using nested RT-PCR in samples collected in 2009 and 2010. A total of 19 of 47 samples resulted positive for rotavirus. The G type was determined in 19/47 samples, whereas the P genotype was determined in 17/47 samples. All equine strains presented a G14 VP7 in combination with a P[12]VP4, suggesting persistence of the same viral strain in the stud farm, during at least two consecutive winter periods. Sequence analysis of the genes encoding the outer capsid rotavirus proteins VP7 and VP4 revealed that the virus had a close relationship between strains recently isolated in the rest of Europe. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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