Table 2.

Detection of C. burnetii DNA in tick (questing and fed) and animal samples and antibody detection in animal sera

Region	Goriška		Notranjsko-kraška	Pomurska	Podravska	Obalno-kraška		Gorenjska	Total
Location	Čiginj	Volče	Dolenja vas	Mačkovci	Maribor	Senožeče	Vremščica	Žirovnica
The number of ticks pools positive for C. burnetii/ total number of ticks sampled from vegetation	1/65 (1.52%)	0/44 (0%)	0/149 (0%)	0/93 (0%)	0/1 (0%)	1/17 (5.10%)	1/80 (1.24%)	1/52 (1.90%)	4/501 (0.79%)
The number of ticks with positive for C. burnetii/ total number of ticks sampled from animals	–	3/29 (10.3%)	1/4 (25%)	–	–	0/6 (0%)	1/4 (25%)	–	5/43 (11.6%)
Adjacent farm animals	sheep	sheep	sheep	cattle	cattle	sheep	sheep	cattle
The number of animal blood samples with detected C. burnetii/ total number of animal blood samples	5/20 (25%)	1/20 (5%)	0/20 (0%)	2/21 (9.5%)	0/10 (0%)	2/20 (10%)	2/20 (10%)	2/19 (10.5%)	14/150 (9.3%)
The number of animal blood samples with detected antibodies against C. burnetii/ total number of animal blood samples	4/20 (20%)	4/20 (20%)	12/20 (60%)	18/21 (85.7%)	5/10 (50%)	5/20 (25%)	12/20 (60%)	1/19 (5.2%)	61/150 (40.4%)
The number of ticks positive for C. burnetii/ total number of ticks sampled from deer	0/24 (0%)		2/10 (20%)	0/33 (0%)	2/33 (6%)	4/35 (11.4%)		0/22 (0%)	8/157 (5.09%)