Patterns of Midichloria infection in avian-borne African ticks and their trans-Saharan migratory hosts

Parasites & Vectors

Table 1 Tick infestation on migratory birds of target species caught on Ventotene island (spring 2015) and number of collected ticks per host species

Avian host	No. of tick-infested/examined birds (%)	Infestation rate^a (95% CI)]	Min-max number of ticks/bird	No. of collected ticks
Phoenicurus phoenicurus	19/223 (8.5)	2.21 (1.33–3.68)	1–11	41
Saxicola rubetra	26/374 (7.0)	4.38 (3.01–6.39)	1–16	114
Sylvia communis	57/1175 (4.9)	1.82 (1.49–2.24)	1–7	104

^aNumber of ticks per tick-infested bird
The confidence intervals (95% CI) of the tick infestation rate were estimated according to an overdispersed Poisson distribution [68]

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