Abstract
Aim: The objective of the current study was to identify the prevalence of rotaviral infection in neonatal calves in Mosul city, Iraq.
Highlights
Diarrhea is one of the chief causes of calf mortality, morbidity and economic losses in the cattle industry [1,2]
Bovine rotavirus is the essential cause of neonatal calf diarrhea
In Iraq rotavirus was detected in faecal samples of calves in Baghdad by using agar gel precipitation test [9] and the virus was isolated from the diarrheic calves [10], the current study was conducted to throw light on the prevalence of rotavirus among neonatal diarrheic calves and to evaluate the currently used diagnostic tests
Summary
Diarrhea is one of the chief causes of calf mortality, morbidity and economic losses in the cattle industry [1,2]. It is known that calves are affected by diarrhoea more at an early stage of the lactation period [3,4]. It is a complex multifactorial condition involving animal, environmental, nutritional and infectious agents [5,6,7,8]. Bovine rotavirus is the essential cause of neonatal calf diarrhea. In Iraq rotavirus was detected in faecal samples of calves in Baghdad by using agar gel precipitation test [9] and the virus was isolated from the diarrheic calves [10], the current study was conducted to throw light on the prevalence of rotavirus among neonatal diarrheic calves and to evaluate the currently used diagnostic tests
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