Table 1.

The number of European snake species examined according to sample, if macroscopic lesions were detected and whether the samples were positive for O. ophiodiicola on real-time PCR.

Species	Sample	Number of samples examined	Number of samples with macroscopic skin lesions detected	Number of real-time PCR-positive samples
Grass snake (Natrix natrix)	Carcass	23	12	8
	Moulted skin shed	164	38	16
Adder (Vipera berus)	Carcass	10	2	1
	Moulted skin shed	107	20	0
Smooth snake (Coronella austriaca)	Moulted skin shed	31	7	0
Dice snake (Natrix tessellata)	Moulted skin shed	1	1	1
Total		336	80	26