ABSTRACT
Oropouche virus (OROV) is an arthropod-borne virus of the Peribunyaviridae family, transmitted to humans primarily by Culicoides paraensis. It is one of the main arboviruses infecting humans in Brazil, primarily in the Amazon Region. Here, we report the detection of OROV in the saliva and urine of a patient whose samples were collected five days after the onset of symptoms. Nucleotide sequencing and phylogenetic analysis further confirmed the results. To our knowledge, this is the first study reporting the detection of OROV in the saliva and urine of an infected patient. In addition, the results of our study expand the current knowledge pertaining to the natural history of Oropouche fever.
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Humans , Female , Saliva/virology , Urine/virology , Orthobunyavirus/isolation & purification , Orthobunyavirus/genetics , Bunyaviridae Infections/diagnosis , Phylogeny , RNA, Viral/genetics , Base Sequence , Amino Acid Sequence , Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction , Middle AgedSubject(s)
Humans , Reassortant Viruses/genetics , Orthobunyavirus/genetics , Bunyaviridae Infections/epidemiology , Peru/epidemiology , Disease Outbreaks , Orthobunyavirus/isolation & purification , Orthobunyavirus/pathogenicity , Bunyaviridae Infections/diagnosis , Bunyaviridae Infections/virologyABSTRACT
ABSTRACT We describe a sensitive method for simultaneous detection of Oropouche and Oropouche-like viruses carrying the Oropouche S segment, as well as the Mayaro virus, using a multiplexed one-step reverse transcription real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR). A chimeric plasmid containing both Mayaro and Oropouche targets was designed and evaluated for the in vitro production of transcribed RNA, which could be easily used as a non-infectious external control. To track false-negative results due to PCR inhibition or equipment malfunction, the MS2 bacteriophage was also included in the multiplex assay as an internal positive control. The specificity of the multiplex assay was evaluated by Primer-Blast analysis against the entire GenBank database, and further against a panel of 17 RNA arboviruses. The results indicated an accurate and highly sensitive assay with amplification efficiency greater than 98% for both targets, and a limit of detection between two and 20 copies per reaction. We believe that the assay described here will provide a tool for Mayaro and Oropouche virus detection, especially in areas where differential diagnosis of Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya viruses should be performed.
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Humans , Orthobunyavirus/classification , Orthobunyavirus/genetics , Bunyaviridae Infections/diagnosis , Bunyaviridae Infections/virology , Alphavirus Infections/diagnosis , Alphavirus Infections/virology , Alphavirus/classification , Alphavirus/genetics , Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction , Multiplex Polymerase Chain ReactionABSTRACT
Relatam-se os dados clínicos e laboratoriais de um caso de moléstia humana causada por vírus idêntico ou antigenicamente muito relacionado ao arbovírus do Grupo C Caraparu, em um morador da regiäo do Vale do Ribeira, Estado de Säo Paulo, sudeste do Brasil. O fato apresenta interesse médico sanitário pois embora existam evidências da presença de inúmeros arbovírus na área, os únicos casos comprovados de doença por esses agentes foram os de encefalite pelo vírus Rocio durante a epidemia ocorrida em 1975-1977. Os resultados dos testes sorológicos sugerem diferença anti-gênica entre as cepas de vírus Caraparu isoladas nos Estados de Säo Paulo e Pará e proximidade antigênica entre a cepa de Caraparu de Säo Paulo e o vírus Bruconha