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Table 5 Attached ticks from captured rodents from all three sites from 2012 and 2013 and the number of CNM positives in a selected number of these ticks

From: Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis and Anaplasma phagocytophilum: prevalences and investigations on a new transmission path in small mammals and ixodid ticks

 

Developmental stage/sex of ticks per species and per location

 

Tick species

Site S

Site T

Site R1

Total of ticks per species

Nymphs

N (p/n)

Larvae

N (p/n)

Adults*

N (p/n)

Nymphs

N (p/n)

Larvae

N (p/n)

Nymphs

N (p/n)

Larvae

N (p/n)

I. ricinus

180 (14/73)

1740 (17/377)

-

44 (1/22)

1132 (0/352)

3 (0/3)

151 (0/91)

3250 (32/918)

I. trianguliceps

-

-

1 (0/1)

5 (0/5)

2 (0/1)

-

-

8 (0/7)

D. reticulatus

35 (0/15)

98 (1/25)

-

-

-

-

-

133 (1/40)

Total

2053 (32/490 1)

1184 (1/3812)

154 (0/943)

3391 (33/965)

  1. (p/n): Number of ticks positive from the total number of ticks we selected for further investigation/number of selected ticks for DNA extraction and further investigation.
  2. *female ticks.
  3. 1number of ticks selected from 77 rodents.
  4. 2number of ticks selected from 79 rodents.
  5. 3number of ticks selected from 30 rodents.
  6. N: Number of ticks collected.