Propagation of bovine rotavirus by young dogs.
Ten young dogs were experimentally infected twice with different isolates of bovine rotavirus and 2 uninfected dogs were kept in contact with them. None of the animals developed diarrhoea, but all of them excreted rotavirus in their faeces over a period of up to 10 days after each inoculation, as shown by counterimmunoelectro-osmophoresis and virus isolation. Dogs may thus play a role in the epizootiology of rotavirus diarrhoea in calves. Seroconversion occurred in 6 of the 10 infected dogs but in neither of the 2 contact controls.
D000818:Animals; D001912:Bovine Virus Diarrhea-Mucosal Disease / Q000635:transmission; D002417:Cattle; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D004285:Dogs / Q000382:microbiology*; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D012401:Rotavirus / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000648:ultrastructure