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. 2017 Oct 3;93(11):fix129. doi: 10.1093/femsec/fix129

Table 4.

Pathogen prevalence in ticks fed on a specific group of hosts.

Rodents Artiodactyls Birds Unidentified
Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. 23.9% 26.1% 16.7% 23.1%
(21/88) (31/119) (3/12) (39/169)
Borrelia miyamotoi 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 4.1%
(1/88) (0/119) (0/12) (7/169)
Babesia sp. 2.3% 3.4% 0% 0.6%
(2/88) (4/119) (0/12) (1/169)
Anaplasma phagocytophilum 2.3% 1.7% 0.0% 4.1%
(2/88) (2/119) (0/12) (7/169)
Rickettsia sp. 5.7% 4.2% 8.3% 4.1%
(5/88) (5/119) (1/12) (7/169)

Only samples with a single detected host are included (number of positive samples/number of samples with particular host detected); samples with positive pathogen detection in which the host could not be identified are labeled as unidentified.