Emerging Infectious Diseases (Nov 2024)

Iquitos Virus in Traveler Returning to the United States from Ecuador

  • Katherine Baer,
  • Itika Arora,
  • Jayden Kimbro,
  • Ali Haider,
  • Michelle Mott,
  • Kyleigh Marshall,
  • Henry M. Wu,
  • Jessica Fairley,
  • Anne Piantadosi,
  • David R. Myers,
  • Jesse J. Waggoner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3011.240708
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 30, no. 11
pp. 2447 – 2451

Abstract

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We describe the case of a returned traveler to the United States from Ecuador who had an acute febrile illness, initially diagnosed as Oropouche fever. This illness was later confirmed to be a rare infection with Iquitos virus, a related bunyavirus that shares 2 of 3 genome segments with Oropouche virus.

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