Table 4.
Number of detections and prevalence of major Ixodes scapularis-borne pathogens (Borrelia burgdorferi, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Babesia microti and Borrelia miyamotoi) at sites in Hunterdon County during 2020 and 2021.
| Site | Year | n | No. of ticks infected (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B. burgdorferi | A. phagocytophilum | B. microti | B. miyamotoi | |||
| Round Mt | 2020 | 67 N | 6 (9.0) | 4 (6.0) | 4 (6.0) | 0 (0) |
| 121 A | 63 (52.1) | 9 (7.4) | 8 (6.6) | 4 (3.3) | ||
| 2021 | 54 N | 5 (9.3) | 1 (1.9) | 0 (0) | 1 (1.9) | |
| 80 A | 22 (27.5) | 4 (5.0) | 3 (3.8) | 2 (2.5) | ||
| Delaware & Raritan | 2020 | 57 N | 26 (45.6) | 17 (29.8) | 3 (5.3) | 1 (1.8) |
| 114 A | 73 (64.0) | 33 (28.9) | 9 (7.9) | 4 (3.5) | ||
| 2021 | 24 N | 4 (16.7) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | |
| 22 A | 12 (54.5) | 1 (4.5) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | ||
| Wescott | 2020 | 2 N | na | na | na | na |
| 73 A | 29 (39.7) | 6 (8.2) | 3 (4.1) | 3 (4.1) | ||
| 2021 | 28 N | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | |
| 20 A | 4 (20.0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (5.0) | ||
Abbreviations: N, nymphs; A, adults; n, number of ticks tested.