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.