Relevant publications 

​(not only from SLAM authors)

• Infection Experiments Indicate That Common Florida Anurans and Lizards May Serve as Intermediate Hosts for the Invasive Pentastome Parasite, Raillietiella orientalis 
  

• Parasite spillover: indirect effects of invasive Burmese pythons

• Highly competent native snake hosts extend the range of an introduced parasite beyond its invasive Burmese python host

• Documenting Range Expansion of the Invasive Pentastome Parasite, Raillietiella orientalis, Using Southern Black Racer and Eastern Coachwhip Road Mortality

 

• ​Rapid spread of the invasive pentastome Raillietiella orientalis (Hett, 1915) in 14 new Florida counties and in pet trade snakes

 

• A novel PCR assay and sampling techniques for the detection of Raillietiella orientalis

 

• Native and Nonindigenous Anurans and Lizards Are Intermediate Hosts for the Invasive Pentastome Parasite Raillietiella orientalis in Florida

 

• Health assessment and multipathogen surveillance of free-ranging snakes in the southeastern United States

 

• Discovery of Novel Definitive Hosts Broadens the Known Host Range of the Invasive Pentastome, Raillietiella orientalis, across Snakes, Lizards, and Chelonians

 

• Pathologic Characterization of Raillietiella orientalis Infection and Comorbidities in Free-Ranging Pygmy Rattlesnakes (Sistrurus miliarius) from Central Florida, USA

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