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. 2019 Sep 13;10(9):297. doi: 10.3390/insects10090297

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)