Parasites and microorganisms associated with the snakes collected for the “festa Dei serpari” in Cocullo, Italy

• Jairo Alfonso Mendoza-Roldan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Valenzano, Italy

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• Livia Perles,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Valenzano, Italy

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• Ernesto Filippi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biologist consultant for the Cocullo municipality, Rome, Italy

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• Nicole Szafranski,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States

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• Gianpaolo Montinaro,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation RIFCON GmbH, Goldbeckstrasse 13, Hirschberg, Germany

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• Mariaelisa Carbonara,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Valenzano, Italy

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• Riccardo Scalera,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation IUCN/SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group, Rome, Italy

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• Pedro Paulo de Abreu Teles,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Valenzano, Italy

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• Julia Walochnik,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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• Domenico Otranto

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: domenico.otranto@uniba.it

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Valenzano, Italy, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7518-476X

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