Table 1.
Prevalence of Bartonella spp. in three species of wild-caught Microtus voles. Numbers of pregnant females are shown in parentheses; % of pregnant infected females are shown in square brackets
| Year | Infection status | M. arvalis | M. agrestis | M. oeconomus | Microtus spp. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ♂ | ♀ | All | ♂ | ♀ | All | ♂ | ♀ | All | ♂ | ♀ | Total | ||
| 2013 | NI | 8 | 8 (5) | 16 | 4 | 2 (2) | 6 | 4 | 1 (1) | 5 | 16 | 11 (8) | 27 |
| I | 12 | 27 (16) | 39 | 5 | 3 (1) | 8 | 8 | 6 (4) | 14 | 25 | 36 (21) | 61 | |
| % infected | 60.0 | 77.1 [76.2] | 70.9 | 55.6 | 60.0 [33.3] | 57.1 | 66.7 | 85.7 [80.0] | 73.7 | 61.0 | 76.6 [72.4] | 69.3 | |
| 2014 | NI | 12 | 6 (0) | 18 | 1 | 0 (0) | 1 | 12 | 14 (0) | 26 | 25 | 20 (0) | 45 |
| I | 21 | 30 (10) | 51 | 0 | 2 (0) | 2 | 13 | 18 (5) | 31 | 34 | 50 (15) | 84 | |
| % infected | 63.6 | 83.3 [100.0] | 73.9 | 0.0 | 100.0 [–] | 66.7 | 52.0 | 56.3 [100.0] | 54.4 | 57.6 | 71.4 [100.0] | 65.1 | |
| Total | NI | 20 | 14 (5) | 34 | 5 | 2 (2) | 7 | 16 | 15 (1) | 31 | 41 | 31 (8) | 72 |
| I | 33 | 57 (26) | 90 | 5 | 5 (1) | 10 | 21 | 24 (9) | 45 | 59 | 86 (36) | 145 | |
| % infected | 62.3 | 80.3 [83.9] | 72.6 | 50.0 | 71.4 [33.3] | 58.8 | 56.8 | 61.5 [90.0] | 59.2 | 59.0 | 73.5 [81.8] | 66.8 | |
Abbreviations: NI, number of uninfected voles; I, number of infected voles