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Table 3 Frequency of species in the study. HILOGLINEAR statistics provided in Additional file 4: Table S4

From: Ticks and the city - are there any differences between city parks and natural forests in terms of tick abundance and prevalence of spirochaetes?

 

Lyme disease group (Borreliella spp./B. burgdorferi sensu lato)

Relapsing fever group

Habitat

No. of samples

B. afzelii

B. burgdorferi

B. garinii

B. lusitaniae

B. spielmani

B. valaisiana

Total

B. miyamotoi

Natural

77

32.5 (25)

3.9 (3)

48.1 (37)

1.3 (1)

0 (0)

10.4 (8)

96.1 (74)

3.9 (3)

Urban

153

69.3 (106)

17.0 (26)

7.8 (12)

2.0 (3)

0.7 (1)

2.0 (3)

98.7 (151)

1.3 (2)

Natural + Urban

230

57.0 (131)

12.6 (29)

21.3 (49)

1.7 (4)

0.4 (1)

4.8 (11)

97.8 (225)

2.2 (5)

Forest

161

49.7 (80)

13.7 (22)

24.8 (40)

2.5 (4)

0.6 (1)

5.6 (9)

94.4 (152)

3.1 (5)

Park

69

73.9 (51)

10.1 (7)

13.0 (9)

0 (0)

0 (0)

2.9 (2)

97.1 (67)

0 (0)

  1. Frequency of species in % (no. positive samples)