Table 1.
Distribution of Dermacentor ticks with unambiguous origin among the federal states of Germany, received from March 2020 to May 2021.
| Federal state | D. reticulatus (N = 2,457) |
D. marginatus (N = 758) |
Dermacentor spp. (N = 19) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baden-Wuerttemberg | 283 (11.5%) | 403 (53.2%) | 4 (21.1%) |
| Bavaria | 45 (1.8%) | 83 (10.9%) | 0 (0.0%) |
| Berlin | 115 (4.7%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) |
| Brandenburg | 399 (16.2%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (5.3%) |
| Free Hanseatic City of Bremen | 1 (0.04%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) |
| Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg | 2 (0.04%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) |
| Hesse | 193 (7.9%) | 33 (4.4%) | 2 (10.5%) |
| Lower Saxony | 507 (20.6%) | 0 (0.0%) | 3 (15.8%) |
| Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | 14 (0.6%) | 1 (0.1%) | 0 (0.0%) |
| North Rhine-Westphalia | 26 (1.1%) | 39 (5.1%) | 2 (10.5%) |
| Rhineland-Palatinate | 70 (2.8%) | 194 (25.6%) | 1 (5.3%) |
| Saarland | 47 (1.9%) | 5 (0.7%) | 0 (0.0%) |
| Saxony | 222 (9.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 3 (15.8%) |
| Saxony-Anhalt | 272 (11.1%) | 0 (0.0%) | 3 (15.8%) |
| Schleswig-Holstein | 58 (2.4%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) |
| Thuringia | 203 (8.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) |