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Volume 29, Number 9—September 2023
Dispatch

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

Gilda TroncosComments to Author , Dina Popuche, Bishwo N. Adhikari, Kyle A. Long, Jane Ríos, Michel Valerio, Carolina Guevara, Regina Z. Cer, Kimberly A. Bishop-Lilly, Julia S. Ampuero, Maria Silva, and Cristhopher D. Cruz
Author affiliations: US Naval Medical Research Unit SOUTH, Lima, Peru (G. Troncos, D. Popuche, J. Ríos, C. Guevara, J.S. Ampuero, M. Silva, C.D. Cruz); Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, USA (B.N. Adhikari); Biological Defense Research Directorate, Naval Medical Research Command, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA (B.N. Adhikari, K.A. Long, R.Z. Cer, K.A. Bishop-Lilly); Leidos, Reston, Virginia (K.A. Long); Hospital Regional Docente de Medicina Tropical Julio César Demarini Caro, Chanchamayo, Peru (M. Valerio); Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima (M. Valerio)

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Table 1

Summary of nucleotide and amino acid similarity for a novel Echarate virus variant isolated from patient with febrile illness, Chanchamayo, Peru*

Segment % Nucleotide identity; % coverage (accession no.) % Amino acid identity (accession no.)
Large 83.2; 99 (HM119410.1) 97.01 (AEA30058.1)
Medium 76.5; 97† (HM119411.1) 86.36 (AEA30046.1)
Small 91.32; 100 (HM119412.1) 96.37‡ (AEA30072.1); 100§ (AEA30073.1)

*Accession nos. represent best hits on GenBank. †Result after a BLASTn (https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) search was optimized for more dissimilar sequences (discontiguous megablast). ‡Nonstructural. §Nucleoprotein.

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