Table 1.
Candidatus “Rickettsia amblyommii” infection in free-living ticks from Panama. Values are given as infected ticks/individuals tested (%) for adults and positive pools/individuals tested (MIR in %) for immatures.
| Species | Locality | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riparian Forest | Forest | PNP | ||||
| Clayton | Achiote | MNP | SMP | SNP | ||
| Adults1 | ||||||
| Amblyomma mixtum | 1/3 (33.3) | 2/6 (33.1) | 1/4 (25) | 0/3 (0) | — | 1/2 (50) |
| Amblyomma naponense | — | — | — | 0/15 (0) | — | 0/1 (0) |
| Amblyomma oblongoguttatum | — | — | 0/3 (0) | 0/3 (0) | — | 0/2 (0) |
| Amblyomma pecarium | — | — | — | 0/2 (0) | — | — |
| Amblyomma tapirellum | — | — | — | 0/13 (0) | 0/16 (0) | — |
| Haemaphysalis juxtakochi | 0/2 (0) | — | 0/2 (0) | 1/9 (11.1) | 0/6 (0) | 0/4 (0) |
| Immature2 | ||||||
| Amblyomma sp. (larvae) | 0/1 (0) | 0/1 (0) | 0/6 (0) | 0/9 (0) | 3/15 (2) | 0/1 (0) |
| Amblyomma sp. (nymph) | 1/2 (8.3) | 0/3 (0) | 2/14 (2.8) | 2/26 (1.3) | 4/20 (3.4) | 0/6 (0) |
| Haemaphysalis juxtakochi (larvae) | — | — | 0/3 (0) | 0/3 (0) | 0/7 | 0/1 (0) |
| Haemaphysalis juxtakochi (nymph) | 0/1 (0) | — | 0/1 (0) | 2/14 (2.4) | 0/9 (0) | 0/3 (0) |
1 Adults samples were analyzed for individuals. In parenthesis, the percentage of adults infected.
2 Immature ticks were analyzed in pools of 10 larvae and 5–7 nymphs. In parenthesis, the MIR corresponded to the number of positive pools/number of individuals examined.