Acknowledgments
Our study was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG KN1097/7-1 to SK) and partly the Czech Science Foundation (GC18-23521J to DŠ). We thank all contributors for their support. This included the employees of the Chemical and Veterinary Investigation Offices in North Rhine-Westphalia, namely Maja Eydner, Henning Petersen (CVUA-OWL), Annette Kuczka (CVUA-RRW), Maren Kummerfeld (CVUA-MEL), Martin Peters and Sabine Merbach (CVUA-WFL) and the state agencies for health and food safety in Erlangen, Germany and Oberschleissheim, Germany for the sampling of lagomorphs during necropsy. Wildlife pathologists at SVA are thanked for sampling hares in the general wildlife disease surveillance programme. Moreover, we are grateful that Axel Wehrend (Clinic for Veterinary Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Andrology, Giessen, Germany) and Katja Wehrend (Fachtierarztpraxis im Kleebach) contributed an important swab sample of a domestic rabbit. All hunters are thanked for their generous help and assistance in the field. They all have contributed to the success of this study and, therefore, helped to investigate the health of wild lagomorphs.