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Table 4 Ticks infected with other Rickettsia spp. than Rickettsia aeschlimannii

From: Spotted fever Rickettsia species in Hyalomma and Ixodes ticks infesting migratory birds in the European Mediterranean area

Sample location

Bird species

Tick species

Tick stage

Rickettsia species

Sample ID*

Capri 2009

Tree Pipit

Ixodes frontalis

Female

Rickettsia sp.

84154

Antikythira 2009

Garden warbler

Haemaphysalis sp.

Nymph

Rickettsia sp.

84594

 

Sedge warbler

H. marginatum s.l.

Nymph

Rickettsia sp.

84607

  

Hyalomma rufipes

Larva

Rickettsia sp.

84609

Capri 2010

European pied flycatcher

Ixodes frontalis

Nymph

Possibly R.monacensis

113618

Antikythira 2010

Common redstart

H. marginatum s.l.

Larva

R. africae

 
 

Song thrush

H. marginatum s.l.

Nymph

R. africae

 
  

H. marginatum s.l.

Nymph

R. africae

 
  

H. marginatum s.l.

Nymph

R. africae

 
 

Eurasian siskin

H. marginatum s.l.

Nymph

R. africae

 
 

Song thrush

No photo

 

R. africae

 
  

No photo

 

R. africae (probable)

 
 

European greenfinch

No photo

 

R. africae (probable)

 
 

Great reed warbler

H. marginatum s.l.

Nymph

Rickettsia sp.

84748

 

Golden oriole

H. marginatum s.l.

Larva

Rickettsia sp.

84751

 

11 Individual birds

15 Individual ticks

   
  1. *Sequence data for these samples are displayed in Table 6.