Widespread rotavirus H in commercially raised pigs, United States

Marthaler, Douglas; Rossow, Kurt; Culhane, Marie; Goyal, Sagar; Collins, Jim; Matthijnssens, Jelle; Nelson, Martha; Ciarlet, Max

doi:10.3201/eid2007.140034

Widespread rotavirus H in commercially raised pigs, United States

Author:

Marthaler, Douglas

Rossow, Kurt ; Culhane, Marie ; Goyal, Sagar ; Collins, Jim ; Matthijnssens, Jelle ; Nelson, Martha ; Ciarlet, Max

Keywords:

Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, GROUP-B, ADULT DIARRHEA, CLASSIFICATION, CHINA, RVH, United States, novel rotavirus, phylogenetic analysis, pigs, swine, viruses, Animals, Feces, Japan, Phylogeny, Rotavirus, Rotavirus Infections, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Swine, Swine Diseases, 1103 Clinical Sciences, 1108 Medical Microbiology, 1117 Public Health and Health Services, Microbiology, 3202 Clinical sciences, 4202 Epidemiology, 4203 Health services and systems

Abstract:

We investigated the presence in US pigs of rotavirus H (RVH), identified in pigs in Japan and Brazil. From 204 samples collected during 2006-2009, we identified RVH in 15% of fecal samples from 10 US states, suggesting that RVH has circulated in the United States since 2002, but probably longer.