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Case Reports
. 2018 May;24(5):935-937.
doi: 10.3201/eid2405.171569.

Isolation of Oropouche Virus from Febrile Patient, Ecuador

Emma L Wise, Steven T Pullan, Sully Márquez, Verónica Paz, Juan D Mosquera, Sonia Zapata, Simon K Jackson, Gyorgy Fejer, Gabriel Trueba, Christopher H Logue
Case Reports

Isolation of Oropouche Virus from Febrile Patient, Ecuador

Emma L Wise et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2018 May.

Abstract

We report identification of an Oropouche virus strain in a febrile patient from Ecuador by using metagenomic sequencing and real-time reverse transcription PCR. Virus was isolated from patient serum by using Vero cells. Phylogenetic analysis of the whole-genome sequence showed the virus to be similar to a strain from Peru.

Keywords: Arbovirus; Bunyaviridae; Ecuador; Oropouche; Orthobunyaviridae; South America; bunyavirus; communicable disease; high-throughput nucleotide sequencing; metagenomic; orthobunyavirus; virus; viruses.

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