Circulation of four Anaplasma phagocytophilum ecotypes in Europe

Parasites & Vectors

Table 5 Host distributions between ecotypes

	Ecotype I		Ecotype II		Ecotype III		Ecotype IV
Animal	*All*	*Part*	*All*	*Part*	*All*	*Part*	*All*	*Part*	*Total*
Bird	0	0	0	0	0	0	8*	6*	8
Rodent	0	0	3	0	27*	3*	0	0	30
Hedgehog	59*	7*	0	0	0	0	0	0	59
Cattle	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Dog	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9
Red fox	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Goat & sheep	24*	11*	5	0	0	0	0	0	29
Horse	36	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	36
Moose	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
Mouflon	18*	14*	0	0	0	0	0	0	18
Red deer	45*	26*	2	0	0	0	0	0	47
Wild boar	3	2*	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Roe deer	6	3	66	39	0	0	0	0	72
Human	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	34
I. persulcatus	0	0	12	0	3	0	0	0	15
I. ricinus	101	23	68	7	0	0	0	0	169
Deer ked	3	0	6	6	0	0	0	0	9
Total	347	103	163	52	30	3	8	6	548

European samples (All) and Dutch and Belgian samples (Part) are divided in the four ecotypes, which are derived from Figure 1. European samples included the Dutch and Belgian samples. Asterisks* indicate that the A. phagocytophilum samples were (partially) derived from ticks feeding on these hosts (Table 3). The most numerous ecotype in bold numerals indicate significant deviations from the hypotheses that ecotypes are evenly represented in that host species (P < 0.05).

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