TABLE 1.
Prevalence of Borrelia species in I. ricinus ticks that had been removed from humans and obtained at primary health care centers in Östergötland County, Sweden
| Stage | Total no. of ticks examined by the LUX assay | No. of Borrelia-positive ticks (%) | No. of ticks containing indicated Borrelia speciesa |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B. afzelii | B. garinii | B. valaisiana | B. burgdorferi sensu stricto | B. lusitaniae | B. miyamotoi-like | UT | |||
| Nymph | 296 | 42 (14) | 27 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 6 | ||
| Adult | 101 | 33 (33) | 13* | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| Larva | 2 | 0 (0) | |||||||
| Total | 399 | 75 (19) | 40 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
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Abbreviations: UT, untypeable; *, includes the coinfected ticks.