Table 3.
Detection of tick-borne parasites harbored by ixodid ticks collected from white-tailed deer and nilgai hosts in south Texas.
| Tick Species (Host) |
Anaplasmatacae sp. groEL positive |
Rickettsia sp. rompA positive |
Theileria-Babesia sp. 18S SSU rRNA positive |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female |
Male |
Nymphs |
Larval Pools |
Female |
Male |
Nymphs |
Larval Pools |
Female |
Male |
Nymphs |
Larval Pools |
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| # positive/ total number (proportion positive of total) |
# positive/ total number (proportion positive of total) |
# positive/ total number (proportion positive of total) |
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|
Anocenter nitens (White-tailed deer) |
40/ 84 (0.47) | 41/ 151 (0.27) | 15/ 115 (0.13) | 7/ 55 (0.13) | 0/ 84 - |
0/ 151 - |
0/ 115 - |
0/ 55 - |
16a/ 84 (0.19) | 60 a/ 151 (0.40) | 15/ 115 (0.13) | 48/ 55 (0.87) | |
| (Nilgai) | 0/ 32 - |
0/ 38 - |
0/ 12 - |
0/ 2 - |
0/ 32 - |
0/ 38 - |
0/ 12 - |
0/ 2 - |
2/ 32 (0.06) | 6/ 38 (0.16) | 0/ 12 - |
0/ 2 - |
|
|
Amblyomma maculatum (White-tailed deer) |
6/ 16 (0.38) | 2/ 16 (0.13) | 0/ 1 - |
n/a - |
2/ 16 (0.13) | 2/ 16 (0.13) | 0/ 1 - |
n/a - |
0/ 16 - |
0/ 16 - |
0/ 1 - |
n/a - |
|
|
Ixodes scapularis (White-tailed deer) |
0/ 31 - |
0/ 6 - |
n/a - |
n/a - |
31/ 31 (1.00) | 6/ 6 (1.00) | n/a - |
n/a - |
0/ 31 - |
0/ 6 - |
n/a - |
n/a - |
|
a
Of these positive A. nitens ticks, two adult females and six adult males were collected from a single nilgai host.