Table 2.
Infection rates with Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis in questing Ixodes ricinus ticks from recreational areas in Bavaria, the Saarland and in and around the city of Leipzig, Saxony
| Region | |
Female |
Male |
Nymph |
Total |
||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos | Total | (%) | Pos | Total | (%) | Pos | Total | (%)a | Pos | Total | (%)a | ||
| Leipzig |
|
67 |
212 |
(31.6) |
52 |
219 |
(23.7) |
20-28 |
108 |
(18.5-25.9) |
139-147 |
539 |
(25.8-27.3) |
| |
Site |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
E |
7 |
45 |
(15.6) |
8 |
56 |
(14.3) |
3 |
6 |
(50) |
18 |
107 |
(16.8) |
| |
F |
2 |
6 |
(33.3) |
1 |
4 |
(25.0) |
1-5 |
10 |
(10–50) |
4-9 |
20 |
(20.0-45.0) |
| |
G |
0 |
6 |
(0) |
0 |
2 |
(0) |
0 |
13 |
(0) |
0 |
21 |
(0) |
| |
H |
35 |
74 |
(47.3) |
18 |
53 |
(34.0) |
10-14 |
45 |
(22.2-31.1) |
63-67 |
172 |
(36.6-39.0) |
| |
I |
23 |
81 |
(28.4) |
25 |
104 |
(24.0) |
6 |
34 |
(17.6) |
54 |
219 |
(24.7) |
| Bavaria |
|
5 |
42 |
(11.9) |
5 |
58 |
(8.6) |
1 |
28 |
(3.6) |
11 |
128 |
(8.6) |
| Saarland |
|
17 |
43 |
(39.5) |
18 |
36 |
(50.0) |
4-12 |
36 |
(11.1-33.3) |
39-47 |
115 |
(33.9-40.1) |
| All regions | 89 | 297 | (29.7) | 75 | 313 | (24.0) | 25-44 | 172 | (14.5-25.6) | 189-208 | 782 | (24.2-26.6) | |
a cannot be exactly provided due to varying numbers (up to 5) of nymphs in the pools; The range of infection rate is the minimal and maximal infection rate (MinIR, MaxIR), assuming that either only one or all of the nymphs in a pool were positive.
pos = positive.