Seroprevalence and Molecular characterization of Bovine viral diarrhea, Rota and corona viruses in neonatal cattle and buffalo calves in some governorates in Egypt

Abstract

The present study aims to detect the prevalence and molecular characterization of Bovine Viral Diarrhea, Rota and corona viral diseases as major causes of diarrhea that mainly leads to neonatal deaths among calves in some governorates in Egypt (Kafr El Sheikh, El Menofyia, Sharkia, Bahaira and El-Gharbia). The infection rate of the three examined viral diseases showed non-significant difference between sex and age of cow calves, and the infection more common in female young calves. Selective positive samples undergo sequencing and compared with other strains in GenBank. The results showed that the Egyptian BVD strain is closely related to BVD strain from Argentina (DQ088995) and Colombia (MH198305), while Bovine Rota (BRV) showed high similarity with Bovine Rota strain of South Korea and Turkey, but Bovine Corona virus (BCoV) was closed to Bovine Corona viruses (BCoV) strain isolated from France.

First detection of emerging HoBi-like Pestivirus (BVD-3) among some persistently infected dairy cattle herds in Egypt

“…Even though there was not enough information about the presence of HoBi-like Pestivirus in the Middle East and African countries, there were some previous reports about the widespread presence of BVDV-1 and sporadic existence of BVDV-2 (El-bahgy et al, 2018 ;Atwa et al, 2019 ;Lotfy et al, 2020 ;Guidoum et al, 2020 ;Pawlos et al, 2020 ; Aboezz et al, 2021 and Endeshaw et al, 2021 ).…”