Table 3.
Number of I. ricinus ticks from dogs and cats and tick borne pathogens detected during the study period (percentage of positive ticks)
| Dogs | Cats | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pathogens | larva | nymph | male | female | all stages | larva | nymph | male | female | all stages |
| n=0 | n=26 | n=151 | n=1368 | n=1545 | n=11 | n=22 | n=49 | n=403 | n=485 | |
| Anaplasma phagocytophilum | 3 (2.0) | 19 (1.4) | 22 (1.4) | 4 (1.0) | 4 (0.8) | |||||
| Anaplasma platys | 1 (0.7) | 1 (0.1) | ||||||||
| Neoehrlichia mikurensis | 1(3.8) | 8 (5.3) | 61 (4.5) | 70 (4.5) | 5 (1.2) | 5 (1.0) | ||||
| Babesia divergens | 1 (0.7) | 9 (0.7) | 10 (0.6) | |||||||
| Babesia microti | 4 (0.3) | 4 (0.3) | 1 (0.2) | 1 (0.2) | ||||||
| Babesia venatorum | 1 (0.1) | 1 (0.1) | ||||||||
| Borrelia burgdorferi (s.s.) | 1 (3.9) | 1 (0.7) | 5 (0.4) | 7 (0.5) | 1 (4.5) | 2 (0.5) | 3 (0.6) | |||
| Borrelia afzelii | 5 (3.3) | 17 (1.2) | 22 (1.4) | 1 (2.0) | 5 (1.2) | 6 (1.2) | ||||
| Borrelia bissetti/carolinensis | 2 (1.3) | 3 (0.2) | 5 (0.3) | |||||||
| Borrelia garinii | 5 (3.3) | 23 (1.7) | 28 (1.8) | 1 (4.5) | 8 (2.0) | 9 (1.9) | ||||
| Borrelia spielmanii | 5 (3.3) | 8 (0.6) | 13 (0.8) | 3 (0.7) | 3 (0.6) | |||||
| Borrelia valaisiana | 4 (2.6) | 23 (1.7) | 27 (1.7) | 3 (6.1) | 3 (0.7) | 6 (1.2) | ||||
| other Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.) | 1 (0.1) | 1 (0.1) | ||||||||
| Rickettsia helvetica | 3 (11.5) | 17 (11.2) | 157 (11.5) | 177 (11.5) | 1 (9.1) | 2 (9.1) | 5 (10.2) | 62 (15.4) | 70 (14.4) | |
| Rickettsia monacensis * | 1(0.1) | 1 (0.1) | ||||||||
| Rickettsia raoultii | 1 (0.7) | 1 (0.1) |
* no specific RLB probe present, but identification based on hybridization with Rickettsia catch-all probe and on the sequence of PCR product