Table 2.

Prevalence of vector-borne pathogens in ticks collected from raccoon dogs in ROK during 2008–2009

Species	Stage	Number of pools (number of ticks)	Number of PCR-positive samples (prevalence [%]*) against Borrelia sp.
Haemaphysalis flava	Larva	2 (14)	0
	Nymph	9 (43)	0
	Male	32 (32)	0
	Female	16 (16)	1 (6.3)
	Subtotal	59 (105)	1 (1.0)
Haemaphysalis longicornis	Female	9 (9)	0
	Subtotal	9 (9)	0
	Total	68 (114)	1 (0.9)

PCR = polymerase chain reaction.

^*PCR-positive pathogens were calculated by minimum infection rate and number of positive pools/total number of individual ticks tested.