Oropouche virus cases identified in Ecuador using an optimised qRT-PCR informed by metagenomic sequencing

• Emma L. Wise,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Infection Service, Public Health England, Salisbury, United Kingdom, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0279-3900

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• Sully Márquez,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Microbiology Institute, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

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• Jack Mellors,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Infection Service, Public Health England, Salisbury, United Kingdom

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• Verónica Paz,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hospital Delfina Torres de Concha, Esmeraldas, Ecuador

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• Barry Atkinson,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Arthropod Genetics Group, The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom

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• Bernardo Gutierrez,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

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• Sonia Zapata,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Microbiology Institute, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

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• Josefina Coloma,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Oliver G. Pybus,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Simon K. Jackson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom

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• Gabriel Trueba,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Microbiology Institute, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

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• Gyorgy Fejer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom

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• Christopher H. Logue ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher H. Logue, Steven T. Pullan

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: christopher.logue@phe.gov.uk

  Affiliations National Infection Service, Public Health England, Salisbury, United Kingdom, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom, Microbiology Institute, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

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• Steven T. Pullan

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher H. Logue, Steven T. Pullan

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Infection Service, Public Health England, Salisbury, United Kingdom

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