Save Our Amphibians & Reptiles: How YOU Can Reduce the Spread of Disease
PARC Products by National Disease Task Team
- Guidance on Designing Surveillance Studies for Herpetological Pathogens
- New Disease Risk Paper: Why you need to wear and change gloves and not co-house animals
- Bsal Information Sheet
- Salamander chytrid fungus (Bsal) briefing paper
- Amphibian Declines and Chytridiomycosis
- How to report observations of sick or dying amphibians or reptiles
- Enhanced Between-Site Biosecurity to Minimize Herpetofaunal Disease-Causing Pathogen Transmission
Herpetofaunal Disease Fact Sheets
PARC Products by Regional Disease Task Teams Southeast PARC
- Environmental DNA (eDNA) Sampling for Amphibian Pathogens
- Download documents at: www.separc.org
- Guidance on Investigating Amphibian and Reptile Mortalities
Northeast PARC
- www.northeastparc.org/products/pdfs/NEPARC_Pub_2014-02_Disinfection_Protocol.pdf
- www.northeastparc.org/products/pdfs/NEPARC_Ranavirus_FAQ.pdf
- www.northeastparc.org/products/pdfs/NEPARC_SnakeFungalDiseaseFAQ.pdf
Useful Websites
Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative
Other Resources
- OIE Manual of Diagnostic Tests for Aquatic Animals
- Pessier and Mendelson 2010
- Infectious Diseases and Pathology of Reptiles
- Amphibian Medicine and Captive Husbandry
- Diseases of Amphibians
- The AAZV infectious Disease Manual:
- c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.aazv.org/resource/resmgr/IDM/IDM_Chytridiomycosis_Disease.pdf
- c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.aazv.org/resource/resmgr/IDM/IDM_Herpesviruses_in_tortois.pdf
- c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.aazv.org/resource/resmgr/IDM/IDM_Ophidian_Paramyxovirus_2.pdf
- c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.aazv.org/resource/resmgr/IDM/IDM_Ranavirus_2013.pdf