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Table 2 Detection of Borrelia infection in various stages of I. granulatus ticks collected from four townships of Kinmen Island by PCR assay targeting the 5S ( rrf )-23S ( rrl ) intergenic spacer gene of B. burgdorferi sensu lato

From: Prevalence and molecular identification of Borrelia spirochetes in Ixodes granulatus ticks collected from Rattus losea on Kinmen Island of Taiwan

Township

Stage of ticka

Total No. infected/No. tested (%)

 

Male

Female

Nymph

 

No. infected/No. tested (%)

No. infected/No. tested (%)

No. infected/No. tested (%)

Kin-Hu

6/14 (42.9)

40/65 (61.5)

19/46 (41.3)

65/125 (52.0)

Kin-Sha

3/9 (33.3)

25/57 (43.9)

19/36 (52.8)

47/102 (46.1)

Kin-Ning

0/0 (0.0)

1/3 (33.3)

0/5 (0.0)

1/8 (12.5)

Kin-Cheng

0/2 (0.0)

3/6 (50.0)

7/18 (38.9)

10/26 (38.5)

Total

9/25 (36.0)

69/131 (52.7)

45/105 (42.9)

123/261 (47.1)

  1. aAll I. granulatus ticks were removed from the rodent host of Rattus losea.
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