Table 2 Numbers of ticks collected from lizards and vegetation in the four study areas which were tested positive for tick-borne pathogens by PCR-RLB.
From: Role of sand lizards in the ecology of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases in the Netherlands
Location | Heumensoord | Bergherbos | Leusderheide | Hullenberg | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
RLB positive ticks number (%) | Lizards (n = 48) | Heather (n = 39) | Forest (n = 50) | Lizards (n = 61) | Heather (n = 40) | Forest (n = 41) | Lizards (n = 55) | Heather (n = 70) | Forest (n = 76) | Lizards (n = 58) | Heather (n = 57) | Forest (n = 118) |
B. burgdorferi | 0 (0) | 3 (8) | 5 (10) | 0 (0) | 7 (18) | 4 (10) | 0 (0) | 14 (20) | 20 (26) | 3 (5) | 25 (44) | 25 (21) |
   B. b. sensu stricto | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
   B. garinii | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
   B. afzelii | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 18 | 2 | 25 | 23 |
   B. valaisiana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ehrlichia/Anaplasma | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (2) | 11 (18) | 4 (10) | 3 (7) | 1 (2) | 6 (9) | 16 (21) | 0 (0) | 15 (26) | 20 (17) |
   E. schotti | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 13 | 17 |
   A. phagocytophilum | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
   Unspeciated | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Rickettsia | 16 (33) | 11 (28) | 13 (26) | 9 (15) | 3 (8) | 2 (5) | 7 (13) | 9 (13) | 6 (8) | 10 (17) | 10 (18) | 7 (5,9) |
   R. helvetica | 16 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 5 |
   R. typhi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
   Unspeciated | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Babesia | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 3 (5) | 0 (0) | 1 (2) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 2 (3,4) | 3 (5,3) | 5 (4,2) |
   B. microti | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
   B. EU1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
   Unspeciated | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |