Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis and its co-circulation with Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Ixodes ricinus ticks across ecologically different habitats of Central Europe

Table 2 GLMM analysis on the occurrence probability of CNM in questing ticks as a function of the proportion of ticks infected with AP and tick developmental stage

Parameter	Estimate	SE	df	t	p
Random effect
Site ID	0.49	0.32			0.128
Fixed effects
Intercept	-3.33	0.37	8	-8.96	< 0.001
Proportion of ticks infected with AP	7.02	2.69	7	2.61	0.035
Tick developmental stage_adults	-0.01	0.30	7	-0.01	0.996
Tick developmental stage_nymphs	0

The pseudo-likelihood function was used to calculate parameter estimates. The analysis was conducted with SAS (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC) and the GLIMMIX macro.

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