Table 1. Tick identification and number of bacterial agents detected in 418 ticks removed from humans during 2014–2021 in France and their geographic origin*.
| Tick species | No. ticks | Tick origin | Bacteria from ticks |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rickettsia sp. | CLB | Coxiella burnetii | Borrelia sp. | Anaplasmataceae | Bartonella sp. | |||
|
Ixodes ricinus
|
183 |
MF, n = 169; Switzerland n = 4; UK, n = 2; Italy, Russia, Croatia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Latvia, or Germany, n = 1 |
R.
helvetica, n = 2; R.
monacensis, n = 1; Rickettsia sp., n = 7 |
10 |
0 |
B. afzelii, n = 3; B. miyamotoi, n = 2; Borrelia sp., n = 11 |
Wolbachia sp., n = 2; Anaplasma
phagocytophilum, n = 1; undetermined, n = 7 |
0 |
|
I. hexagonus |
4 |
MF, n = 4 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
I. frontalis |
1 |
MF, n = 1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Ixodes sp. |
9 |
MF, n = 3; UK, n = 2; Switzerland, n = 4 |
Rickettsia sp. 1 |
3 |
0 |
Borrelia sp. 1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Dermacentor marginatus
|
113 |
MF, n = 113 |
R. raoultii, n = 21; R. slovaca, n = 17; Rickettsia sp., n = 11 |
95 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
D. reticulatus |
5 |
MF, n = 5 |
R. raoutlii, n = 1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Dermacentor sp. |
18 |
MF, n = 18 |
R. raoultii, n = 1; Rickettsia sp., n = 7 |
16 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Rhipicephalus sanguineus
|
52 |
MF, n = 51; Egypt, n = 1 |
R. massiliae, n = 8; Rickettsia sp., n = 3 |
49 |
1 |
0 |
Ehrlichia canis, n = 1 |
0 |
|
R. pusillus |
9 |
MF, n = 9 |
R. sibirica
mongolitimoniae, n = 6; R.
massiliae, n = 3 |
5 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
R. bursa |
4 |
MF, n = 4 |
R. barbariae, n = 1 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Rhipicephalus sp. |
2 |
MF, n = 2 |
Rickettsia sp., n = 1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Hyalomma marginatum
|
2 |
MF, n = 2 |
Rickettsia sp., n = 1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
H. aegyptium |
1 |
Turkey, n = 1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Hyalomma sp. |
5 |
MF, n = 2; Greece, n = 3 |
R. africae, n = 1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Amblyomma variegatum
|
3 |
Guadeloupe, n = 3 |
Rickettsia sp., n = 1, R. africae, n = 1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
A. hebraeum |
1 |
South Africa, n = 1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
A. mixtum |
1 |
Cuba, n = 1 |
R. amblyommatis, n = 1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
A. oblongoguttatum |
1 |
Guadeloupe, n = 1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Argas reflexus
|
2 |
MF, n = 2 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Haemaphysalis concinna
|
1 |
Belgium, n = 1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| H. punctata | 1 | MF, n = 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
*Ticks (n = 418) were sent to the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection in Marseille, France, during 2014–2021 for identification of tick and bacteria species by using mass spectrometry (ticks) and molecular and serologic methods (bacteria). CLB, Coxiella-like bacteria; MF, metropolitan France.