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. 2023 Aug 17;18(8):e0289567. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289567

Table 1. The tick species collected from the studied provinces in 2017–2018.

Genus Species Mazandaran N (%) Golestan N (%) Guilan N (%) Kurdistan N (%) West-Azerbaijan N (%) Total N (%)
Ixodes I. ricinus 1805 (76.6) 6 (0.4) 140 (74.9) - - 1951 (46.4)
Haemaphysalis Ha. concinna 6 (0.2) - 1 (0.5) - - 7 (0.2)
Ha. Inermis 3 (0.1) - 1 (0.5) - - 4 (0.1)
Ha. punctata - - 1 (0.5) - - 1 (0.02)
Hyalomma Hy. anatolicum - 40 (2.7) - - 4 (4.8) 44 (1.00)
Hy. marginatum 56 (2.4) 65 (4.5) 16 (8.6) - 6 (7.2) 143 (3.4)
Hy. dromedarii - 18 (1.2) - - - 18 (0.4)
Hyalomma spp. - - - - 3 (3.6) 3 (0.1)
Rhipicephalus Rh. bursa 48 (2.0) 1 (0.1) - - 70 (84.3) 119 (2.8)
Rh. sanguineus 343 (14.5) 343 (23.6) 1 (0.5) 115 (100.0) - 802 (19.1)
Rh. turanicus 61 (2.6) 983 (67.5) 9 (4.8) - - 1053 (25.1)
Rh. annulatus 34 (1.4) - 18 (9.6) - - 52 (1.2)
Total 2356 (100) 1456 (100) 187 (100) 115 (100) 83 (100) 4197 (100)