highly significantp < 0.001
Differences were considered significant as follows: * means 0.01 ≤ p < 0.05 significant; ** means 0.001 ≤ p < 0.01 highly significant and *** means p < 0.001 very highly significant; ns: indicates not significant. 3.
Differences were considered significant as follows: * means 0.01 ≤ p < 0.05 significant; ** means 0.001 ≤ p < 0.01 highly significant and *** means p < 0.001 very highly significant; ns: indicates not significant. 3.
In the last decade, there has been an increasing trend in the European Union (EU) in that, currently, the EU region is the largest importer of reptiles globally [ 32 ], spawning studies on topics discussing the recrudescence of new and diverse forms of infection, especially those of zoonotic, bacterial [ 33 , 34 ], viral [ 35 ], parasitological [ 36 ], or fungal origin [ 37 ] in pet reptiles.