Table 4 Co-infection prevalence (%) between studied pathogens in I. ricinus and I. persulcatus samples
Species | Collection area | No. of ticks analysed | No. (%) of ticks co-infected | B. b. (s.l.) + Rickettsia spp. | B. b. (s.l.) + Anaplasma spp. | B. b. (s.l.) + Babesia spp. | B. b. (s.l.) + “Ca. N. mikurensis” | Babesia spp. + Rickettsia spp. | Anaplasma spp. + Rickettsia spp. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I. ricinus | 1 | 994 | 33 (3.2) | 17 (1.6) | 2 (0.2) | 3 (0.3) | 6 (0.6) | 1 (0.1) | 4 (0.4) |
2 | 998 | 16 (1.6) | 13 (1.3) | 1 (0.1) | 0 | 0 | 2 (0.2) | 0 | |
3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
a | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Subtotal | 2014 | 49 (2.4) | 30 (1.5) | 3 (0.2) | 3 (0.2) | 6 (0.3) | 3 (0.2) | 4 (0.2) | |
I. persulcatus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2 | 1160 | 9 (0.8) | 9 (0.8) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | 261 | 2 (0.8) | 2 (0.8) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
a | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Subtotal | 1451 | 11 (0.8) | 11 (0.8) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 3465 | 60 (1.7) | 41 (1.2) | 3 (0.1) | 3 (0.1) | 6 (0.2) | 3 (0.1) | 4 (0.1) |