Table 1.
Numbers of Ixodes ricinus counted, collected and tested for tick-borne pathogens. The number of positive ticks is given per tick-borne pathogen, including the infection prevalence (in parentheses) followed by a breakdown of the sequencing results.
| Larvae | Nymphs | Adults |
Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female | Male | Total | |||||
| No. dragged | 1684 | 628 | 34 | 28 | 62 | 2376 | |
| No. collected while crawling on field staff | 0 | 51 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 54 | |
| No. tested | 0 | 665 | 35 | 30 | 65 | 730 | |
| Anaplasma phagocytophilum | NA | 31 (4.7%) | 2 (5.7%) | 5(16.7%) | 7 (10.8%) | 38 (5.2%) | |
| Ecotype 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | ||
| Ecotype 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Unknown ecotype | 23 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 29 | ||
| Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.) | NA | 85 (12.8%) | 5 (14.3%) | 8 (26.7%) | 13 (20.0%) | 98 (13.4%) | |
| B. afzelii | 20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 21 | ||
| B. burgdorferi (s.s.) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||
| B. garinii | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | ||
| B. valaisiana | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Unknown genospecies | 51 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 62 | ||
| Borrelia miyamotoi | NA | 6 (0.6%) | 1 (2.9%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (1.5%) | 7 (1.0%) | |
| Babesia microti | NA | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (6.7%) | 2 (3.1%) | 2 (0.3%) | |
| Babesia clade-X | NA | 4 (0.6) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 4 (0.5%) | |
| B. venatorum | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| Unknown species | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||