Editing Rotavirus (section)

== Other animals ==
Rotaviruses infect the young of many species of animals and they are a major cause of diarrhoea in wild and reared animals worldwide.<ref name="isbn0-12-375158-6">{{cite book |vauthors=Dubovi EJ, MacLachlan NJ |title=Fenner's Veterinary Virology|edition=4th |publisher=Academic Press |location=Boston |year=2010 |page=288 |isbn=978-0-12-375158-4}}</ref> As a pathogen of livestock, notably in young calves and piglets, rotaviruses cause  economic loss to farmers because of costs of treatment associated with high morbidity and mortality rates.<ref name="pmid19781872">{{cite journal |vauthors=Martella V, Bányai K, Matthijnssens J, Buonavoglia C, Ciarlet M |title=Zoonotic aspects of rotaviruses |journal=Veterinary Microbiology |volume=140 |issue=3–4 |pages=246–255 |year =2010 |pmid=19781872 |doi=10.1016/j.vetmic.2009.08.028|url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00556058/document }}</ref> These rotaviruses are a potential reservoir for genetic exchange with human rotaviruses.<ref name="pmid19781872" /> There is evidence that animal rotaviruses can infect humans, either by direct transmission of the virus or by contributing one or several RNA segments to [[Reassortment|reassortants]] with human strains.<ref name="pmid17416132">{{cite journal |vauthors=Müller H, Johne R |title=Rotaviruses: diversity and zoonotic potential—a brief review |journal=Berliner und Munchener Tierarztliche Wochenschrift |volume=120 |issue=3–4 |pages=108–112 |year=2007 |pmid=17416132 }}</ref><ref name="pmid15066329">{{cite journal |vauthors=Cook N, Bridger J, Kendall K, Gomara MI, El-Attar L, Gray J |title=The zoonotic potential of rotavirus |journal=The Journal of Infection |volume=48 |issue=4 |pages=289–302 |year=2004 |pmid=15066329 |doi=10.1016/j.jinf.2004.01.018 |url=http://researchonline.rvc.ac.uk/id/eprint/1175/ }}</ref><ref name="pmid26428261">{{cite journal |vauthors=Dóró R, Farkas SL, Martella V, Bányai K |s2cid=42693014 |title=Zoonotic transmission of rotavirus: surveillance and control |journal=Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy |volume=13 |issue=11 |pages=1337–1350 |year=2015 |pmid=26428261 |doi=10.1586/14787210.2015.1089171 }}</ref>