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Table 4 Number of mixed larval blood meals with specific host compositions

From: Identification of Ixodes ricinus blood meals using an automated protocol with high resolution melting analysis (HRMA) reveals the importance of domestic dogs as larval tick hosts in Italian alpine forests

 

Apodemus spp.

Sorex spp.

Vulpes vulpes

Capreolus capreolus

Cervus elaphus

Bos taurus

Apodemus spp.

  

1

 

2

 

Myodes glareolus

   

1

  

Crocidura leucodon

  

2

 

1

 

Crocidura suaveolens

1

     

Turdus merula

1

     

Turdus spp./Erithacus rubecula

2a

 

1

   

Canis lupus familiaris

4

1

  

1

3

Ovis spp.

1a

     

Capra hircus

1

     
  1. aFrom a single nymph, DNA from Apodemus spp., Turdus. spp./E. rubecula and Ovis spp. was identified