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. 2004 Sep 23;93(1):135–141. doi: 10.1016/0021-9975(83)90051-8

Propagation of bovine rotavirus by young dogs

Anne Schwers ∗, L Dagenais ∗, G Chappuis †, P-P Pastoret ∗, C-M Calberg-Bacq ‡
PMCID: PMC7130162  PMID: 6302138

Abstract

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.

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