A novel PCR assay and sampling techniques for the detection of Raillietiella orientalis
Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile ScienceRaillietiella orientalis, an invasive crustacean pentastome parasite, threatens native snake populations in the southeastern United States, infecting at least 18 species across Florida.
Nicole M Nemeth +2 more
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Ecosphere, 2020 Invasive Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus) have introduced a nonnative pentastomid parasite (Raillietiella orientalis) to southern Florida that has spilled over to infect native snakes.
Melissa A. Miller +8 more
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Helminths infecting the cat-eyed snake Leptodeira annulata Linnaeus 1758 (Squamata: Dipsadidae) in a semiarid region of Brazil [PDF]
Helminthologia, 2018 Snakes have diverse feeding and living habits, being exposed to a variety of endoparasite communities. However, more studies are still necessary to document these relationships.
Fernandes De Carvalho E. F. +6 more
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Host-specific phenotypic variation of a parasite co-introduced with invasive Burmese pythons. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Invasive Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus Kuhl, 1820) have introduced a lung parasite, Raillietiella orientalis, (Hett, 1915) from the python's native range in Southeast Asia to its introduced range in Florida, where parasite spillover from pythons to ...
Aundrea K Westfall +5 more
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Raillietiella mottae (Pentastomida: Raillietiellidae) infecting Ameiva ameiva (Squamata: Teiidae) in Araripe Plateau, Northeast Brazil [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2018 We investigated the infection by pulmonary parasites in the lizard Ameiva ameiva (Teiidae) inhabiting the Environmental Protection Area of Araripe (APA-Araripe).
E. G. Silva +4 more
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Physiological Status Drives Metabolic Rate in Mediterranean Geckos Infected with Pentastomes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Negative effects of parasites on their hosts are well documented, but the proximate mechanisms by which parasites reduce their host's fitness are poorly understood.
Isabel C Caballero +5 more
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Multi-host model-based identification of Armillifer agkistrodontis (Pentastomida), a new zoonotic parasite from China. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2010 BACKGROUND: Pentastomiasis is a rare parasitic infection of humans. Pentastomids are dioecious obligate parasites requiring multiple hosts to complete their lifecycle. Despite their worm-like appearance, they are commonly placed into a separate sub-class
Shao-Hong Chen +7 more
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Tissue specific structural variations of mitochondria of fish ectoparasite Argulus bengalensis Ramakrishna, 1951 (Crustacea: Branchiura): Functional implications [PDF]
Journal of Advanced Research, 2014 We studied the fine structure of some classical and six variant mitochondria from different tissues viz. proboscis gland, spinal gland, ovary, testis, and muscle of a fish ectoparasite, Argulus bengalensis.
Anirban Banerjee, Samar K. Saha
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The things they carried: The pathogenic effects of old and new parasites following the intercontinental invasion of the Australian cane toad (Rhinella marina) [PDF]
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2017 Brought to Australia in 1935 to control agricultural pests (from French Guiana, via Martinique, Barbados, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Hawai'i), repeated stepwise translocations of small numbers of founders enabled the cane toad (Rhinella marina) to escape ...
D. Selechnik +4 more
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Pentastomid, Raillietiella mottae Almeida, Freire and Lopes, 2008, infecting lizards in an area of caatinga, northeast, Brazil [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2008 Pentastomids can infect the respiratory tract of lizards, causing their death and as a result influencing the population size of hosts. Despite this, studies on rates of pulmonary infection of Brazilian lizards, including those living in Caatinga ...
WO. Almeida +5 more
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