TABLE 3.

B. burgdorferi sensu lato infections in I. ricinus ticks feeding on songbirds

Bird species	No. of examined birds	No. of tested ticksa		Number of ticks infected with:
				B. burgdorferi sensu lato		B. garinii		B. valaisiana		B. garinii and B. valaisiana
		L	N	L	N	L	N	L	N	L	N
P. major (Linnaeus, 1758)	11	2	11	1	2	1	1		1
T. merula (Brehm, 1831)	2	2	12	1	3		1	1	2
T. philomelos (Linnaeus, 1758)	3	12	18	3	6	2	5	1			1
Total	16	16	41	5	11	3	7	2	3		1

^aL, larvae; N, nymphs.