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Table 3 Pathogen PCR results and GenBank ID sequences according to tick species

From: Ticks and associated pathogens collected from cats in Sicily and Calabria (Italy)

 

Number of positive ticks to any pathogen/ numbers of ticks studied (%)

 

PCR pathogens

I. ventalloi

R. sanguineus sensu lato

R. pusillus

I. ricinus

Ixodes spp.

Ticks total (%)

GenBank ID sequences

Bartonella clarridgeiae

1/62 (1.6 %)

1/28 (3.5 %)

0 (0 %)

0 (0 %)

0 (0 %)

2/132 (1.5 %)

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Hemotropic Mycoplasma spp.

0 (0 %)

0 (0 %)

0 (0 %)

0 (0 %)

0 (0 %)

0/132 (0 %)

NA

Rickettsia spp.

1/62 (1.6 %)a

2/28 (7.1 %)

0 (0 %)

2/20 (10 %)

2/5 (40 %)

7/132 (5.3 %)

ND

Rickettsia monacensis

1 (1.6 %)

2 (7.1 %)

0 (0 %)

1 (5 %)

1 (20 %)

5 (3.8 %)

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Rickettsia helvetica

1 (1.6 %)

0 (0 %)

0 (0 %)

1 (5 %)

1 (20 %)

3 (2.3 %)

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Ehrlichia spp. /Anaplasma spp.

1/62 (1.6 %)

0 (0 %)

0 (0 %)

0 (0 %)

0 (0 %)

1/132 (0.75 %)

Ehrlichia canis KF034789.1

Babesia vogeli

0 (0 %)

1/28 (3.5 %)

0 (0 %)

0 (0 %)

0 (0 %)

1/132 (0.75 %)

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Hepatozoon felis

0 (0 %)

0 (0 %)

0 (0 %)

0 (0 %)

0 (0 %)

0/132

ND

Leishmania infantum

4/62 (6.4 %)b

3/28 (10.7 %)c

3/17 (17.6 %)

1/20 (10 %)

0 (0 %)

11/132 (8.3 %)

ND

Total number of positive ticks to any pathogen/total numbers of ticks studied (%)

6/62 (9.7 %)

5/28 (17.8 %)

3/17 (17.6 %)

3/20 (15.0 %)

2/5 (40.0 %)

19/132 (14.4 %)

NA

  1. aOne tick was co-infected with R. monacensis and R. helvetica; bone female tick co-infected with B. clarridgeiae. cOne male tick coinfected with B. vogeli and one female tick co-infected with R. monacensis. NA not applicable, ND not determined