Table 2.
Prevalence [minimum positive rate (%)] of pathogens (pools) in the field ticks collected in the Gwang-ju metropolitan area, South Korea (May 2014–April 2018).
| Total | Hamaphysalis longicornis | Hamaphysalis flava | Ixodes nipponensis | Amblyomma testudinarium | |
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| Collected field ticks | 11,717 | 10,904 | 656 | 151 | 6 |
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| Pools | (1,094p) | (640p) | (321p) | (127p) | (6p) |
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| Detected pathogen (pool) | 57 | 35 | 4 | 16 | - |
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| Rickettsia species | 45 (0.38) | 31 (0.28) | 5 (0.76) | 9 (5.96) | - |
| Anaplasma phagocytopylum | 3 (0.02) | 2 (0.02) | - | 1 (0.66) | - |
| Borrelia species | 9 (0.07) | 2 (< 0.01) | 1 (0.15) | 6 (3.97) | - |