ABSTRACT
Rotavirus is the main cause of diarrhea in young animals of several species. They are classified as a genus within the virus family Reoviridae. Rotaviruses have a segmented genome made up of a double-stranded RNA. It is divided into 11 segments and surrounded by a triple protein capsid. In this study, Rotavirus was detected by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) in feces samples of 80-day-old goats during a diarrhea outbreak in a milk-producing herd. The sample’s electrophoretic pattern, called cap01/2007, was characterized as Group A rotavirus. A 20% fecal suspension in buffer TRIS 0.1M pH 7.3 was filtered and treated with crystalline trypsin in a 5 mg/mL concentration for viral isolation. Caprine sample Cap01/2007 was inoculated in MA-104 cells (Rhesus’s kidneys) with a 48-hour growth. Two treatments (T1 and T2) were tested. In T1, maintenance medium without trypsin was added (Dulbecco-MEM) after adsorption (buffer at 37º C for 1h) the inoculum was maintained. In treatment T2, the previous procedure without the inoculum was performed. Cytopathic effect was observed in the first passage for both treatments (T1 and T2) with 48h inoculation, and viral isolation was then confirmed by PAGE. Migration design remained unchanged after 3 successive passages. This is the first report of isolation of caprine rotavirus in Brazil.
KEY WORDS
Rotavirus; goats; diarrhea; isolation; MA-104 cells
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