ArticleTransboundary and emerging diseases2026
Identification and Characterization of Scutavirus testudinidalpha3 Infection in Captive Elongated Tortoises (Indotestudo elongata).
Article in Transboundary and emerging diseases, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Identification and Characterization of Scutavirus testudinidalpha3 Infection in Captive Elongated Tortoises (Indotestudo elongata).Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Scutavirus testudinidalpha3, formerly Testudinid alphaherpesvirus 3 or testudinid herpesvirus (TeHV)-3, is a highly contagious herpesvirus that has been reported in multiple testudinid species, causing acute stomatitis-rhinitis complex in affected animals or establishing latent infections in surviving individuals. This study investigated an outbreak of S. testudinidalpha3 infection in 17 elongated tortoises (Indotestudo elongata) housed exclusively in an outdoor zoo enclosure in Taiwan in March, 2022. The affected tortoises exhibited nasal and ocular discharge and diphtheroid plaques on the oral mucosa. Despite prompt isolation and supportive treatment, 14 individuals succumbed. Necropsy and histopathologic examination revealed severe necrosis with inflammation, characterized by eosinophilic intranuclear inclusion bodies and occasional syncytial cells in multiple organs. Conventional polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and in situ hybridization (ISH) confirmed S. testudinidalpha3 infection. DNA polymerase (DNApol) gene sequences were identical among all individuals and shared 97.86% nucleotide similarity with the German 4295/7R strain. Furthermore, the full-length sequence of glycoprotein B (gB), a potential virulence factor in herpesviruses, showed 99.9% identity with the Switzerland CH6883/03 strain, classifying this isolate as belonging to the genogroup B, known for its high pathogenicity. This report documents the first confirmed case of S. testudinidalpha3 infection in elongated tortoises.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.