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Table 3 Pathogen co-infections in ticks collected from dogs in multiple cities in Russia

From: Dog survey in Russian veterinary hospitals: tick identification and molecular detection of tick-borne pathogens

Species

Location

No. tested

(F/M/N/L)a

Type of co-infection

No. (%) ticks infected

95% CI

Ixodes persulcatus

Artem

13 (6/-/1/ 6)

B.g. + B.a.: 1 (7.7)

0.2–36.0

Ekaterinburg

19 (17/-/2/-)

B.g. + B.a.: 1 (5.3)

0.1–26.0

Irkutsk

59 (53/6/-/-)

B.g. + B.v. + A.ph.; B.g. + E.m.; B.d. + E.m.: 1 (1.7)

0.9–9.1

B.g.+ B.a.: 2 (3.4)

0.4–11.7

Khabarovsk

9 (9/-/-/-)

B.g.+ A.ph.: 1 (11.1)

0.3–48.2

Kirov

50 (38/9/3/-)

B.a. + E.m.; B.a. + B.mic.; B.a. + A.ph.: 1 (2.0)

0.1–10.6

B.g. + B.a.: 3 (6.0)

1.3–16.5

Krasnoyarsk

30 (28/-/2/-)

B.g. + B.a.: 1 (3.3)

0.1–17.2

Perm

6 (6/-/-/-)

B.g. + B.a.; B.g. + E.m.: 1 (16.7)

0–64.1

Vladivostok

14 (11/3/-/-)

B.a. + A.ph.; B.g. + B.m.: 1 (7.1)

0.2–33.9

Vologda

32 (27/2/3/-)

B.g.+ B.a.: 3 (9.4)

2.0–2.5

B.a. + E.m.; B.g. + B.a. + E.m.; B.g. + B.a. + B.mic.: 1 (3.1)

0.1–16.0

Ixodes ricinus

Moscow

70 (67/2/1/-)

B.m. + A.m.; B.a. + B.c. + A.m.: 1 (1.4)

0–7.7

St Petersburg

14 (14/-/-/-)

B.g.+ B.m.: 1 (7.1)

0.2–33.9

Total

 

316 (276/22/12/6)

  
  1. aF, females; M, males; N, nymphs, L, larvae
  2. Abbreviations: A.ph., Anaplasma phagocytophilum; A.m., A. marginale; E.m., Ehrlichia muris; B.m., Borrelia miyamotoi; B.a., B. afzelii; B.g., B. garinii; B.mic., Babesia microti; B.c., B. canis; B.v., B. venatorum; B.d., B. divergens