A Relative abundance of bacteria genera identified in samples taken from mice and ball pythons (Python regius) at a python farm in Togo. Genera containing potential pathogens of known zoonotic concern to ball pythons (as reported in the scientific literature) are highlighted in colour. The majority of reads (shown in grey) were assigned to “other” least concern groups, which consisted of ASVs that were either assigned to non-target genera or no genus. Samples were from swabs of: MR – mouse rectal; MO – mouse oral, SC – snake cloacal; and SO – snake oral. B Relative abundance of bacteria genera of known zoonotic concern to ball pythons (Python regius) (as reported in the scientific literature) identified in samples taken from mice and snakes at a python farm in Togo. Samples were from swabs of: MR – mouse rectal; MO – mouse oral, SC – snake cloacal; and SO – snake oral. No bacterial genera of zoonotic concern were identified from sample MO2.