Ecology of Porcine Rotaviruses

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2014. Major: Veterinary Medicine. Advisor: Sagar Goyal. 1 computer file (PDF); v, 131 pages.Rotaviruses (RVs) cause severe diarrhea in young animals including pigs and humans. Porcine RV infections cause severe economic losses for swine farmers. Since RV infections can be symptomatic or asymptomatic in pigs, economic losses are difficult to estimate. Recent studies are lacking to estimate the economic loss to farmers partly due to the historical lack of proper RV diagnostic assay, making any previous estimates inaccurate. While the severity of disease can greatly differ due to many variables, RV morbidity and mortality are highest in piglets (