Table 2. Abundance of the four tick species that were most highly submitted from humans and animals in the passive surveillance program in Québec, from 2007 to 2015: Number of I. cookei, D. variabilis, A. americanum and R. sanguineus.
Tick species | Male | Female | Nymphs | Larvae | Total |
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Ixodes cookei | |||||
Single | 12 | 1724 | 1320 | 113 | 3169 |
Multiple | 4 | 477 | 1807 | 2970 | 5258 |
Total | 16 | 2201 | 3127 | 3083 | 8427 |
Dermacentor variabilis | |||||
Single | 94 | 202 | 1 | 0 | 297 |
Multiple | 32 | 51 | 2 | 0 | 85 |
Total | 126 | 253 | 3 | 0 | 382 |
Amblyomma americanum | |||||
Single | 10 | 48 | 1 | 0 | 59 |
Multiple | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Total | 10 | 50 | 3 | 0 | 63 |
Rhipicephalus sanguineus | |||||
Single | 28 | 71 | 10 | 3 | 112 |
Multiple | 125 | 105 | 29 | 0 | 259 |
Total | 153 | 176 | 39 | 3 | 371 |