Table 2.
The Minimum Infection Rates of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato in Ixodes ricinus Ticks
| Pathogens | Pools of ticks collected from |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vegetation |
Humans |
Other animals |
Total by tick stage |
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| F | M | N | F | M | N | F | M | N | F | M | N | |
| A. phagocytophilum | 5.8a | 7.7 | 4.2 | 6.0 | n/a | 4.7 | 3.1 | n/a | n/a | 5.3 | 4.9 | 4.3 |
| B. burgdorferi s. l. | 12.3 | 8.6 | 12.7 | 17.1 | n/a | 20.8 | 6.4 | n/a | 40.0 | 12.3 | 5.0 | 17.9 |
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Values correspond to minimum infection rates (%), which were calculated with the assumption that only one tick in each positive pool was infected (no. of ticks tested/minimal no. infected).