Molecular characterization of equine rotaviruses isolated in Europe in 2013: implications for vaccination

J Matthijnssens, E Ons, S De Coster… - Veterinary …, 2015 - Elsevier
Equine group A rotavirus (RVAs) mainly cause disease in foals under the age of 3 months.
Only sporadic data are available on the circulation of RVAs in equine populations in Europe.
In this study, 65 diarrheic samples from foals under 4 months of age were collected in
Belgium (n= 32), Germany (n= 17), Slovenia (n= 5), Sweden (n= 4), Hungary (n= 3), Italy (n=
2), France (n= 1) and The Netherlands (n= 1). Forty percent of these samples (n= 26) were
found to be RVA positive by a quantitative RT-PCR assay. The viral load in 11 of these …
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