Novel Echarate Virus Variant Isolated from Patient with Febrile Illness, Chanchamayo, Peru

Abstract

A new phlebovirus variant was isolated from an acute febrile patient in Chanchamayo, Peru. Genome characterization and p-distance analyses based on complete open reading frames revealed that the virus is probably a natural reassortant of the Echarate virus (large and small segments) with a yet-unidentified phlebovirus (M segment).

Keywords

• phlebovirus
• Candiru complex
• Echarate
• viruses
• vector-borne infections
• fever