Erratum to: Revisited: Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato infections in hard ticks ( Ixodes ricinus ) in the city of Hanover (Germany)

Julia Tappe; Daniela Jordan; Elisabeth Janecek; Volker Fingerle; Christina Strube

doi:10.1186/s13071-016-1516-3

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Erratum to: Revisited: Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato infections in hard ticks (Ixodes ricinus) in the city of Hanover (Germany)

Julia Tappe¹,
Daniela Jordan¹,
Elisabeth Janecek¹,
Volker Fingerle² and
Christina Strube¹Email author

Parasites & Vectors20169:249

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-016-1516-3

Received: 18 April 2016
Accepted: 18 April 2016
Published: 29 April 2016

The original article was published in Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:441

Erratum

Unfortunately, we noticed that in our published paper [1] the numbers of ticks co-infected with Borrelia burgdorferi (sensu lato) (s.l.) and Anaplasma phagocytophilum were partly incorrect as one adult female tick was detected false-positive for A. phagocytophilum infection. Corrected data showed that none of the female or adult ticks was co-infected with Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.) and Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Among all tick stages, only six instead of seven out of 2,100 ticks were infected with both pathogens, but the prevalence of 0.3 % reported in [1] remained unchanged. The corrected Table 4 is included below. The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Table 4

Co-infections with B. burgdorferi (s.l.) and Rickettsiales in Hanoverian ticks in 2010

	No. of collected ticks	No. of B. burgdorferi (s.l.) positive ticks	Total co-infections	Rickettsia spp. co-infections	A. phagocytophilum co-infections	Co-infections with Rickettsia spp. and A. phagocytophilum
		No. (%)	No. (%)	No. (%)	No. (%)	No. (%)
Adults	372	124 (33.3)	43 (11.6)	42 (11.3)	0 (na*)	0 (na*)
Males	196	58 (29.6)	22 (11.2)	22 (11.2)	0 (na*)	0 (na*)
Females	176	66 (37.5)	21 (11.9)	20 (11.4)	0 (na*)	0 (na*)
Nymphs	1697	344 (20.3)	120 (7.1)	111 (6.5)	6 (0.4)	3 (0.2)
Larvae	31	8 (25.8)	0 (na*)	0 (na*)	0 (na*)	0 (na*)
All stages	2,100	476 (22.7)	163 (7.8)	153 (7.3)	6 (0.3)	3 (0.1)

*na, not applicable

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Authors’ Affiliations

(1)

Institute for Parasitology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Hanover, Buenteweg 17, Hannover, 30559, Germany

(2)

German National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Veterinärstraße 2, Oberschleißheim, 85764, Germany

Reference

Tappe J, Jordan D, Janecek E, Fingerle V, Strube C. Revisited: Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato infections in hard ticks (Ixodes ricinus) in the city of Hanover (Germany). Parasit Vectors. 2014;7:441. doi:10.1186/1756-3305-7-441.View ArticlePubMedPubMed CentralGoogle Scholar

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