Table 5.
Number of ticks which were PCR-positive for one or more pathogens according to pathogen species positivity and location in northwest Italy and of out-of-region
| Region | Province | PCR | Rickettsia species | Borrelia species | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R. helvetica | R. monacensis | R. slovaca | R. aeshlimannii | Rickettsia spp. | A. phagocytophilum | B. afzelii | B. burgdorferi | B. valaisiana | B. garinii | B. lusitaniae | Borrelia spp. | |||
| Piedmont | Biella | 13 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Cuneo | 19 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Novara | 14 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Turin | 52 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||
| Vercelli | 53 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Verbano-cusio-ossola | 319 | 19 | 20 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | ||
| Alessandria | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Asti | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Liguria | Savona | 8 | 1 | |||||||||||
| La spezia | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Not determined | 6 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Out-of-region | 13 | 1 | ||||||||||||