Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Richard Francis (ABZECO), Jake Haddad (VPAC), Kirk Stone (Strathbogie Wildlife), Andrew Bengsen, Troy Crittle and Quentin Hart (New South Wales Department of Primary Industries), Bob McKinnon and Amy Sheridan (North West Local Land Services), Michael Brennan and Matt Amos (Biosecurity Queensland), and staff from Parks Victoria for assisting with sample collection. In addition, we thank Kim O’Riley and Peter Mee for technical support. Finally, we thank Peter Irwin (Murdoch University), Darren Creek (Monash Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences), Brian Cooke (Monash University) and Abdul Jabbar (University of Melbourne) for providing genomic DNA samples of various parasites used in this study as PCR positive controls. This work was supported by the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions under Grant PO1-L-002.