Table 1.

Targets, primers and amplicon sizes of the PCR-testing from deer keds, blood and muscels.

Target sequence	Designation	Sequence (5′-3′)	Amplicon length	References
Bartonella 16S-23S ITS region	325s	CTTCAGATGATGATCCCAAGCCTTCTGGCG	depending on Bartonella spp.	Cherry et al., 2009
	1100as	GAACCGACGACCCCCTGCTTGCAAAGCA	~500 bp
Bartonella spp.	prAPT0244	GATGTGCATCCTACGCATTATGG	406 bp	Oksi et al., 2013
rpoB	prAPT0245	AATGGTGCCTCAGCACGTATAAG
Acinetobacter baumanii, carbapenemase blaOxa−51	Oxa51-F Oxa51-R	TAATGCTTTGATCGGCCTTG TGGATTGCACTTCATCTTGG	353 bp	Woodford et al., 2006