Article
The molecular epidemiology of bovine rotaviruses circulating in Iran: a two-year study.
Archives of virology - 1 Dec 2016
Pourasgari Farzaneh, Kaplon Jérôme, Karimi-Naghlani Shahla, Fremy Céline, Otarod Vahid, Ambert-Balay Katia, Mirjalili Ali, Pothier Pierre
Abstract excerpt
Bovine group A rotavirus (bovine RVA) is recognized as a major cause of severe gastroenteritis in newborn calves. The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence and identify the genotypes of circulating bovine RVA in newborn diarrheic calves. Two hundred fifty-three stool samples of diarrheic calves up to 1 month old were collected from 42 industrial dairy farms in two Iranian provinces during March...
Topics
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Antigens, Viral
- Capsid Proteins
- Cattle
- Cattle Diseases
- Diarrhea
- Feces
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Genotyping Techniques
- Iran
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Prevalence
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
