Table 3.

Number of positive tick lysates from the four countries using the microfluidic tool (BioMark^TMsystem). Pathogens detected with the microfluidic array are in bold. *One sample was positive for targets of the three different B. burgdorferi s.l. genospecies.

Pathogen	Belgium	Great Britain	Germany	The Netherlands
Samples tested	513	113	255	860
Borrelia spp.	32	8	16	64
B. burgdorferi s.s	0	0	0	0
B. garinii	0	0	0	1*
B. afzelii	0	0	0	1*
B. valaisiana	0	0	0	0
B. lusitaniae	0	0	0	0
B. spielmanii	0	0	0	1*
B. bissetti	0	0	0	0
B. miyamotoi	0	0	0	3
Anaplasma marginale	0	0	0	1
A. platys	0	0	0	0
A. phagocytophilum	1	0	1	3
A. ovis	0	0	0	0
A. centrale	0	0	0	0
A. bovis	0	0	0	0
E. chaffeensis	0	0	0	0
E. ruminantium	0	0	0	0
E. canis	5	3	10	8
Neoehrlichia mikurensis	0	0	0	0
Rickettsia conorii	0	0	0	0
R. slovaca	0	0	0	0
R. massiliae	0	0	0	0
R. helvetica	3	0	0	1
R. aeschlimannii	0	0	0	0
SFG Rickettsia	44	34	87	2
Bartonella henselae	0	0	0	0
B. quintana	0	0	0	0
Francisella tularensis (tul4)	0	0	0	0
Francisella tularensis (fopA)	458	112	251	834
Coxiella burnetii (icd)	1	0	0	0
Coxiella burnetii (IS1111)	0	0	0	0
Babesia divergens	0	3	0	0
B. microti	0	0	0	0
Babesia canis	0	16	0	0
B. vogeli	0	0	54	33
B. bovis	9	0	0	0
B. caballi	0	0	0	0
B. venatorum	0	0	0	0
B. bigemina	0	0	0	0
B. major	0	0	0	0
B. ovis	0	0	0	0
Theileria equi	0	0	1	0
T. annulata	0	0	0	0
Ixodes ricinus	0	0	0	1
I. persulcatus	0	0	0	0
Dermacentor reticulatus	513	113	255	860
D. marginatus	0	0	0	0
Positive processing control	513	113	255	860