Table 2.

Prevalence of tick-borne bacteria in ticks and humans.

Bacteria	Target gene	I. persulcatus (n = 100)	D. silvarum (n = 13)	Humans (n = 245)
Candidatus R. tarasevichiae	ompA	72 (72.00%)	–	–
	gltA	89 (89.00%)	–	–
	Total	89 (89.00%)	–	–
R. raoultii	ompA	–	9 (69.23%)	–
	gltA	–	8 (61.54%)	–
	Total	–	9 (69.23%)	–
R. slovaca	ompA	–	–	2 (0.82%)
	gltA	–	–	–
	Total	–	–	2 (0.82%)
B. garinii	5S-23S rRNA IGS	17 (17.00%)	–	12 (4.90%)
B. afzelii	5S-23S rRNA IGS	7 (7.00%)	–	–
B. miyamotoi	glpQ	7 (7.00%)	–	–
burnetii	IS1111	–	–	1 (0.41%)