Table 6. Infection prevalence of Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus ticks collected in active surveillance, by province, Canada, 2019a,b.
Province | Infection prevalence | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Anaplasma phagocytophilum | Babesia microti | Borrelia burgdorferi | Borrelia miyamotoi | Powassan virus | ||||||
Number positive tick/number tick tested | % | Number positive tick/number tick tested | % | Number positive tick/number tick tested | % | Number positive tick/number tick tested | % | Number positive tick/number tick tested | % | |
Ixodes pacificus | ||||||||||
British Columbia | 0/10 | 0 | 0/10 | 0 | 0/10 | 0 | 0/10 | 0 | 0/10 | 0 |
Ixodes scapularis | ||||||||||
Manitoba | 0/3 | 0 | 0/3 | 0 | 0/3 | 0 | 0/3 | 0 | 0/3 | 0 |
Ontario | 14/406 | 3.5 | 0/397 | 0 | 126/410 | 30.7 | 1/410 | 0.2 | 0/188 | 0 |
Québec | 2/141 | 1.4 | 0/141 | 0 | 28/141 | 19.8 | 1/141 | 0.7 | 0/141 | 0 |
New Brunswick | 8/194 | 4.1 | 0/194 | 0 | 41/194 | 21.1 | 3/194 | 1.6 | 0/194 | 0 |
Nova Scotia | 7/169 | 4.1 | 0/169 | 0 | 46/169 | 27.2 | 0/169 | 0 | 1/169 | 0.6 |
Prince Edward Island | 0/2 | 0 | 0/2 | 0 | 0/2 | 0 | 0/2 | 0 | 0/2 | 0 |
Total | 31/915 | 3.4 | 0/906 | 0 | 241/919 | 26.2 | 5/919 | 0.5 | 1/697 | 0.1 |
a No I. scapularis or I. pacificus ticks were collected or tested in Alberta, Saskatchewan or Newfoundland and Labrador through active surveillance. No active surveillance was conducted in Yukon, Northwest Territories or Nunavut for I. scapularis or I. pacificus ticks
b Infection prevalence is influenced by varying level of effort of active surveillance between provinces and seasonal variation when active surveillance took place. Infection prevalence should be interpreted with caution as not all active surveillance conducted in 2019 in Canada is included