iquitos virus: a novel reassortant orthobunyavirus associated with human illness in peru. | oropouche (oro) virus, a member of the simbu serogroup, is one of the few human pathogens in the orthobunyavirus genus in the family bunyaviridae. genetic analyses of oro-like strains from iquitos, peru, identified a novel reassortant containing the s and l segments of oro virus and the m segment of a novel simbu serogroup virus. this new pathogen, which we named iquitos (iqt) virus, was first isolated during 1999 from a febrile patient in iquitos, an amazonian city in peru. subsequently, the vi ... | 2011 | 21949892 |