Ticha, Lucie
Volfova, Vera
Mendoza-Roldan, Jairo Alfonso
Bezerra-Santos, Marcos Antonio
Maia, Carla
Sadlova, Jovana
Otranto, Domenico
Volf, Petr
Funding for this research was provided by:
Grantová Agentura, Univerzita Karlova (180220, 180220)
National Institute of virology and bacteriology (Programme EXCELES) – Funded by the European Union – Next Generation EU (LX22NPO5103, LX22NPO5103)
NextGenerationEU-MUR PNRR Extended Partnership initiative on Emerging Infectious Diseases (PE00000007, INF-ACT, PE00000007, INF-ACT, PE00000007, INF-ACT)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (GHTM-UID/Multi/04413/2013; IF/01302/2015)
Article History
Received: 3 February 2023
Accepted: 27 March 2023
First Online: 13 April 2023
Declarations
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: Mice, rabbits and leopard geckos were maintained and handled in the animal facility of Charles University in Prague in accordance with institutional guidelines and Czech legislation (Act No. 246/1992 and 359/2012 coll. on Protection of Animals against Cruelty in present statutes at large), which complies with all relevant European Union and international guidelines for experimental animals. All experiments were approved by the Committee on the Ethics of Laboratory Experiments of the Charles University, Prague, and were performed under permissions of no. MSMT-8604/2019-6 and MSMT-11459/2019-4 of the Czech Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic. Investigators are certified for experimentation with animals by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic. Protocols for reptile collection were authorized by the Ministry for Environment, Land and Sea Protection of Italy (approval number 0073267/2019), the <i>Societas</i><i>Herpetologica</i><i>Italica</i> and the <i>Istituto</i><i>Superiore</i><i>per</i><i>la</i><i>Protezione</i><i>e</i><i>la</i><i>Ricerca</i><i>Ambientale</i> (approval number 71216). Reptile handling and maintenance were authorized by the ethical committee of the Department of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Bari, Italy (Prot. Uniba 14/2022).
: Not applicable.
: Authors declare that there are no competing interests.