Figure 2.

Florida counties where ticks were surveyed, and ticks that were positive for a bacterial species. Yellow = site surveyed but ticks not collected, Orange = counties where ticks were collected but were not infected with a bacterial species. Red/blue/green = county with positive ticks for a genus of bacterial species detected. Ixodes scapularis vectors: Thick black lines denote climatic regions. (A) B. burgdorferi. Amblyomma americanum vectors: (B) B. lonestari, (C) E. ewingii, (D) R. parkeri, (E) R. amblyommatis. Amblyomma maculatum vectors: (F) R. andeanae.