Table 1.

The results of tick sorting (morphological identification, sorting by sex and development stage) and real-time RT-PCR examination of ticks from Almaty Oblastʼ

Region	No. of ticks/No. of pools	Tick species (No. of ticks/No. of pools)	No. of positive pools in real time PCR by sex/No. of ticks)	MIR% by tick species	MIR% by region
Talgar	505/104	I. persulcatus (504/103)	♂ 7/49	4.4	4.4
			♀ 15/53
			Nymphs 0/1
		H. punctata (1/1)	♂ 0/0	0
			♀ 0/1
Tekeli	709/145	D. marginatus (50/12)	♂ 0/3	2	2.8
			♀ 1/9
		D. reticulatus (14/3)	♂ 0/1	0
			♀ 0/2
		I. persulcatus (610/123)	♂ 2/54	3.1
			♀ 17/69
		H. punctata (25/7)	♂ 0/4	0
			♀ 0/3
Yenbekshikazakh	523/113	I. persulcatus (79/17)	♂ 1/7	6.3	1.1
			♀ 4/9
			Nymphs 0/1
		H. punctata (444/96)	♂ 1/43	0.2
			♀ 0/53

Abbreviation: MIR, minimum infection rate