Table 3.

Relative abundance of bacterial reads of selected species in metagenomic sequence data according to Kraken 2 results for the two ticks testing putatively positive for presence of Francisella tularensis by microfluidic real-time PCR. Species determination according to the Genome Taxonomy Database.

Tick ID	D14IT15.2		D14IT20
Total Reads (M)	225.9		173.6
Genus/Species	Reads (M)	%	Reads (M)	%
Rickettsia	44.4	19.7	103.5	59.6
R. rhipicephali	38.8	17.2	93.2	53.7
Midichloria	9.4	4.2	0.95	0.55
M. mitochondrii	9.4	4.2	0.95	0.55
Francisella	0.080	0.0035	0.026	0.015
FLE	0.074	0.0035	0.025	0.014

M—million; FLE—Francisella-like endosymbiont.