Table 4 Prevalence of tick-borne pathogens in tick species collected from vegetation and HLC in Bulgaria, 2012
Species | Number of ticks | Number of positive/tested ticks (%) [95% CI] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
L | N | M | F | Total | Rickettsia spp. | Anaplasma phagocytophilum | Borrelia burgdorferi | “Ca. N. mikurensis” | |
Ixodes spp. | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | – | 0/7 (0) | 0/7 (0) | 0/7 (0) |
I. ricinus | 534 | 579 | 23 | 26 | 1162 | 214/340 (62.94) [57.69–67.91] | 29/1162 (2.5) [1.73–3.57] | 11/1162 (0.95) [0.51–1.71] | 1/1162 (0.09) [0–0.54] |
Hy. marginatum | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 0/1 (0) | 0/7 (0) | 0/7 (0) | 0/7 (0) |
Hy. anatolicum | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0/1 (0) | 0/1 (0) | 0/1 (0) | |
Hy. excavatum | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0/3 (0) | 0/3 (0) | 0/3 (0) | |
Rhipicephalus spp. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0/21(0) | 0/1(0) | 0/1 (0) | 0/1 (0) |
R. bursa | 21 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 24 | 0/24 (0) | 0/24 (0) | 0/24 (0) | |
R. sanguineus | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1/5 (20) [2.03–64.04] | 0/5 (0) | 0/5 (0) | |
R. rossicus | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0/1 (0) | 0/1 (0) | 0/1 (0) | |
R. turanicus | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0/1 (0) | 0/1 (0) | 0/1 (0) | |
Haemaphysalis punctata | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | – | 0/2 (0) | 0/2 (0) | 0/2 (0) |
Total | 562 | 581 | 35 | 36 | 1214 | 214/362 (59.12) [53.98–64.06] | 30/1214 (2.47) [1.72–3.52] | 11/1214 (0.91) [0.49–1.64)] | 1/1214 (0.08) [0–0.51] |