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In response to an increase in bog turtle mortality and concerns about their health, we assessed bog turtle health and pathogen prevalence across five USA states\u2014New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland\u2014between 2014 and 2022. Adenoviruses, specifically barthadenovirus, or atadenoviruses, siadenoviruses, and testadenoviruses, have been associated with infection and disease in chelonians. To determine whether adenoviruses were present in free-ranging bog turtle populations, we tested archived choanal-cloacal swabs by PCR. Overall, 26 (49%) of 53 pooled samples collected between 2014 and 2018 and 9 (30%) of 30 samples collected in 2022 were positive for adenovirus. The DNA sequence and phylogenetic analyses revealed at least four distinct and novel lineages: Glyptemys adenovirus 1 (a testadenovirus first detected in Delaware and New Jersey in 2014 and in New York and Pennsylvania in 2016), Glyptemys adenovirus 2 (a testadenovirus detected in New Jersey and Pennsylvania in 2014), Glyptemys adenovirus 3 (an unclassified adenovirus detected in New Jersey in 2016), and Glyptemys adenovirus 4 (a siadenovirus detected in Maryland in 2016). None of these adenoviruses were associated with clinical signs or disease; however, knowledge of which pathogenic organisms are circulating in the bog turtle populations can inform decisions on monitoring, species recovery efforts, and captive breeding programs.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.7589\/jwd-d-24-00112","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,16]],"date-time":"2025-05-16T00:26:52Z","timestamp":1747355212000},"page":"496-502","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Adenoviruses in Wild Bog Turtles (Glyptemys muhlenbergii) of the Northeastern USA"],"prefix":"10.7589","volume":"61","author":[{"given":"Susan L.","family":"Bartlett","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Wildlife Conservation Society, Zoological Health Program, 2300 Southern Blvd., Bronx, New York 10460, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tracie A.","family":"Seimon","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Wildlife Conservation Society, Zoological Health Program, 2300 Southern Blvd., Bronx, New York 10460, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bonnie","family":"Raphael","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Wildlife Conservation Society, Zoological Health Program, 2300 Southern Blvd., Bronx, New York 10460, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nicole","family":"Lewis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"New Jersey DEP Fish and Wildlife, Office of Fish and Wildlife Health and Forensics, 141 Van Syckels Rd., Hampton, New Jersey 08827, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Batya","family":"Nightingale","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Wildlife Conservation Society, Zoological Health Program, 2300 Southern Blvd., Bronx, New York 10460, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Brian","family":"Zarate","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"New Jersey DEP Fish and Wildlife, Endangered and Nongame Species Program, 1255 County Rd. 629, Lebanon, New Jersey 08833, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"4415","reference":[{"key":"1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"JM Ascher, AJ Geneva, J Ng, et al.  \"PLoS One.\"  8, \"Phylogenetic analyses of novel squamate adenovirus sequences in wild-caught Anolis lizards.\" e60977 (2013)","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0060977"},{"key":"2","unstructured":"LC Brown, KJ Krause, DR Reavill, et al.  \"Proceedings of the Association of Reptilian and Amphibian Veterinarians: twenty-first annual conference, Orlando, Florida, 18\u201324 October.\"  \"Characterization of a novel Testadenovirus in a red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonaria).\" 15 (2014)"},{"key":"3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"PP Calle, BL Raphael, T Lwin, et al.  \"J Zoo Wildl Med.\"  52, \"Burmese roofed turtle (Batagur trivittata) disease screening in Myanmar.\" 1270 (2021)","DOI":"10.1638\/2021-0017"},{"key":"4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"EEV Crouch, AG Armi\u00e9n, TA Seimon, et al.  \"J Wildl Dis.\"  60, \"Mycoplasmopsis-associated proliferative pneumonia in a bog turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii).\" 783 (2024)","DOI":"10.7589\/JWD-D-23-00150"},{"key":"6","unstructured":"L. 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