infection in a captive Samar cobra () in the United States: An imported case?

We report a case of infection in a Samar cobra () imported from the Philippines, belonging to a zoological collection in the southern United States. Under a poor post-surgical prognosis, the snake was euthanized, and at necropsy plerocercoids of a Diphyllobotriidea were found in its subcutaneous tissues and musculature. Molecular and phylogenetic analyses of the complete cytochrome oxidase c subunit I () gene of the mitochondrial DNA confirmed that the isolate belonged to the genus and was closely related to isolates from Asian countries (bootstrap support = 99.