Table 3.

Host association or location of collection, respectively, for the subset of Dermacentor ticks for which this information was available.

Host/location	D. reticulatus (N = 1,960)	D. marginatus (N = 621)	Dermacentor spp. (N = 15)
Human	183 (9.3%)	182 (29.3%)	3 (20.0%)
Domestic animals
Dog	1,311 (66.9%)	41 (6.6%)	8 (53.3%)
Cat	7 (0.4%)	2 (0.3%)	0 (0.0%)
Horse	144 (7.3%)	95 (15.3%)	0 (0.0%)
Cattle	4 (0.2%)	28 (4.5%)	0 (0.0%)
Goat	0 (0.0%)	72 (11.6%)	0 (0.0%)
Sheep	0 (0.0%)	2 (0.3%)	0 (0.0%)
Guinea pig	1 (0.1%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)
Wildlife
Fox	1 (0.1%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)
Cervids	2 (0.1%)	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)
Mouflon	14 (0.7%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)
Wild boar	4 (0.2%)	3 (0.5%)	0 (0.0%)
Bird	1 (0.1%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)
Off-host
Animal facility (stable/kennel)	2 (0.1%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)
Car	3 (0.2%)	7 (1.1%)	0 (0.0%)
Garden	7 (0.4%)	13 (2.1%)	1 (6.7%)
Indoors	165 (8.4%)	78 (12.6%)	3 (20.0%)
Outdoors	102 (5.2%)	87 (14.0%)	0 (0.0%)
Textiles	9 (0.5%)	10 (1.6%)	0 (0.0%)