Table 3. Prevalence (%) of B. burgdorferi, B. miyamotoi and A. phagocytophilum in questing nymphs and larvae removed from hosts with 95% confidence intervals of exact binomial tests.

Pathogen	Questing nymphs	Feeding larvae
		Mice			Chipmunks			Birds all sp.
		Tested individually	Tested in pools	Combined	Tested individually	Tested in pools	Combined	Tested individually	Tested in pools	Combined
B. burgdorferi (Bb)	9.1	46.93	12.22	29.73	37.50	0.00	27.27	17.63	5.67	14.19
	[7.9–10.3]	[43.68–50.20]	[9.88–14.87]	[26.93–32.69]	[15.20–64.57]	[0.00–27.39]	[11.05–54.43]	[13.33–22.62]	[2.04–12.05]	[10.09–19.59]
	(201)	(436)	(85)	(521)	(6)	(0)	(6)	(49)	(5)	(54)
B. miyamotoi (Bm)	0.8	2.37	0.57	1.47	18.75	0.00	13.64	1.08	0.00	0.77
	[0.4–1.2]	[1.47–3.56]	[0.20–1.22]	[0.85–2.40]	[4.05–45.65]	[0.00–27.39]	[2.94–40.67]	[0.22–3.12]	[0.00–1.70]	[0.16–2.71]
	(17)	(22)	(5)	(27)	(3)	(0)	(3)	(3)	(0)	(3)
A. phagocytophilum (Ap)	2.3	0.11	0.00	0.05	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
	[1.7–3.0]	[0.00–0.60]	[0.00–0.21]	[0.00–0.41]	[0.00–0.00]	[0.00–27.39]	[0.00–7.47]	[0.00–0.00]	[0.00–1.70]	[0.00–0.49]
	(50)	(1)	(0)	(1)	(0)	(0)	(0)	(0)	(0)	(0)
Coinfections Bb—Bm	0.00	1.61	0.45	1.04	12.50	0.00	9.09	0.00	0.00	0.00
	[0.0–0.2]	[0.91–2.65]	[0.14–1.04]	[0.53–1.85]	[1.55–38.35]	[0.00–27.39]	[1.13–35.36]	[0.00–0.00]	[0.00–1.70]	[0.00–0.49]
	(0)	(15)	(4)	(19)	(2)	(0)	(2)	(0)	(0)	(0)
Coinfections Bb—Ap	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
	[0.0–0.2]	[0.00–0.00]	[0.00–0.21]	[0.00–0.10]	[0.00–0.00]	[0.00–27.39]	[0.00–7.47]	[0.00–0.00]	[0.00–1.70]	[0.00–0.49]
	(0)	(0)	(0)	(0)	(0)	(0)	(0)	(0)	(0)	(0)
Number of ticks	2210	929	197	1126	16	1	17	278	24	302

Ticks partially fed to fully engorged with hosts’s blood were tested individually, and unfed ticks were tested in pools per host. The numbers in brackets indicate confidence intervals and the numbers in parenthesis indicate number of positive ticks among those tested, for each category.