New World arenaviruses can cause chronic infection in rodents and hemorrhagic fever in humans. We identified a Sabiá virus-like mammarenavirus in a patient with fatal hemorrhagic fever from São Paulo, Brazil. The virus was detected through virome enrichment and metagenomic next-generation sequencing technology.
Keywords: Brazil; New World arenaviruses; Sabiá virus; Viruses; arenaviruses; mammarenavirus; metagenomics; next-generation sequencing; viral hemorrhagic fever.