Group a Rotavirus Detection in Calves and Piglets from Honduras and Panama
Annabelle Ferrera *
Instituto de Investigaciones en Microbiología, Escuela de Microbiología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH), Honduras.
Lurys Bourdett-Stanziola *
Programa de Las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), Panama, Secretaría Nacional de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación (SENACYT), Panama, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad de Panama, Panama and Biomedicine Research Unit, Center for Biodiversity and Drug Discovery, Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas, (INDICASAT-AIP), Panamá.
Doris Quan
Instituto de Investigaciones en Microbiología, Escuela de Microbiología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH), Honduras.
Manuel Cuevas-Abrego
Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad de Panama, Panama.
Armando A. Durant-Archibold
Biomedicine Research Unit, Center for Biodiversity and Drug Discovery, Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas, (INDICASAT-AIP), Panamá and Department of Biochemistry, College of Natural, Exact Science and Technology, Universidad de Panama, Panama.
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Abstract
The epidemiology of animal rotaviruses infection and their association with illnesses in humans remains unknown in Central America and the world. In this study, we performed a genotyping of rotavirus strains by RT-PCR for-G (VP7) and P (VP4), in samples of diarrhea in calves and piglets, in Honduras and Panama. Mixed infections and combinations of genotypes G (VP7) and P (VP4) were identified in calves in Honduras: 3 (4%) G2P [6], 2 (2%) G2P [4], in piglets: 4 (5%) G4P [6], and in calves in Panama: 63 (72%) G10 P [2], 12 (13%) G8 P [11], 9 (10%) G6 P [11] and 3 (3%) G10 P [1].This investigation represents the first report of bovine and porcine rotavirus strains in Honduras and Panama.
Keywords: Rotavirus, calves, piglets, G (VP7) and P (VP4)