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Table 4 Coinfections with B. burgdorferi (s.l.) and Rickettsiales in Hanoverian I. ricinus in 2015

From: Shifts in Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.) geno-species infections in Ixodes ricinus over a 10-year surveillance period in the city of Hanover (Germany) and Borrelia miyamotoi-specific Reverse Line Blot detection

 

No. of collected ticks

No. of B. burgdorferi (s.l.) positive ticks

Total coinfections

Rickettsia spp. coinfections

A. phagocytophilum coinfections

Coinfections with Rickettsia spp. and A. phagocytophilum

  

No. (%)

No. (%)

No. (%)

No. (%)

No. (%)

Adult

573

203 (35.4)

113 (20.0)

92 (16.1)

14 (2.4)

7 (1.22)

Males

285

92 (32.3)

49 (17.2)

40 (14.0)

5 (1.8)

4 (1.4)

Females

288

111 (38.5)

64 (22.2)

52 (18.1)

9 (3.1)

3 (1.0)

Nymphs

1527

302 (19.8)

151 (9.8)

137 (9.0)

9 (0.6)

5 (0.33)

All stages

2100

505 (24.1)

264 (12.5)

229 (10.9)

23 (1.1)

12 (0.6)