Table 3 Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.) species in Ixodes ricinus and I. frontalis collected from 110 bird individuals
From: Pathogen communities of songbird-derived ticks in Europe’s low countries
Scientific name | B. garinii | B. valaisiana | B. afzelii | B. turdi | Total infested birds | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Larvae Ir | Nymphs Ir | Adults If | Larvae Ir | Nymphs Ir | Larvae Ir | Nymphs Ir | Larvae Ir | Nymphs Ir | Adults If | ||
Turdus merula | 5 | 47 | 1 | 5 | 44 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 64 | ||
Turdus philomelos | 2 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 20 | ||||
Prunella modularis | 8 | 5 | |||||||||
Turdus iliacus | 3 | 5 | 1 | 5 | |||||||
Phoenicurus phoenicurus | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
Phylloscopus trochilus | 3 | 2 | |||||||||
Troglodytes troglodytes | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
Carduelis cabaret | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
Ficedula hypoleuca | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Sylvia curruca | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Sylvia communis | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Passer domesticus | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Passer montanus | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Erithacus rubecula | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Turdus viscivorus | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Total per stage | 13 | 63 | 1 | 7 | 48 | 26 | 3 | 2 | |||
Infected/total (%) | 77/163 (47.2) | 55/163 (33.7) | 26/163 (15.9) | 5/163 (3.1) | |||||||