Table 4.

Pathogen prevalence of ticks collected from Spring 2016 through Fall 2018. * Most commonly reported BLAST result for each pathogen.

Tick Species	Pathogen Species	No. Positive/No. Tested (%) [95% CI]	% Identical (Accession #) *
I. scapularis	B. burgdorferi	1/233 (0.43%) [0–0.02]	98% (AF264895.1)
I. scapularis	R. endosymbiont	80/233 (34.3%) [0.3–0.42]	98% (AB002268)
D. variabilis	R. endosymbiont	1/46 (2.2%) [0–0.11]	97% (AB002268)
D. variabilis	B. lonestari	1/46(2.2%) [0–0.11]	99% (AF273670)
A. americanum	B. lonestari	17/1312 (1.29%) [0.01–0.02]	100% (AF273670)
A. americanum	E. ewingii	2/1312 (0.16%) [0–0.001]	98% (AF195273)
A. americanum	R. amblyommatis	391/1312 (29%) [0.27–0.32]	100% (CP003334)
A. americanum	R. parkeri	2/1312 (0.16%) [0–0.01]	99.7% (MH247927)
A. maculatum	R. andeanae	1/4 (25%) [0.05–0.7]	100% (KY628370)