Trace Amounts of Ranavirus Detected in Common Musk Turtles () at a Site Where the Pathogen Was Previously Common.

Ranaviruses are global multi-host pathogens that infect ectothermic vertebrates and cause mass mortality events in some species. In 2021-2022, we surveyed two species of aquatic turtles in a Virginia site where previous research found ranavirus in lizards () and turtles ( and ). We sampled tissues from 206 turtles and tested 249 samples (including recaptures) for ranavirus using qPCR.