Isolation of Oropouche Virus from Febrile Patient, Ecuador

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
• orthobunyavirus
• bunyavirus
• virus
• Oropouche
• Orthobunyaviridae