TABLE 1.

Collection sites for questing adult Gulf Coast ticks (A. maculatum) obtained in Florida and Mississippi from 2005 to 2007 and percentages of ticks infected with spotted fever group rickettsiae

State	County	Year collected	No. of adult ticks tested		No. positive (% of total) for:
			Males	Females	R. parkeri	Novel Rickettsia sp.a
Florida	Franklin	2005	11	16	3 (11)	1 (4)
		2007	45	47	24 (26)	1 (1)
	Wakulla	2006	8	1	1 (11)	0
Mississippi	Oktibbeha	2007	2	6	2 (25)	0
	Jackson	2007	28	34	25 (40)	3 (5)
Total			94	104	55 (28)	5 (2)

^aAlso designated “Candidatus Rickettsia andeanae” (6, 20) and Rickettsia sp. Argentina (36).