Table 2 List of arthropod samples collected from the vegetation and from vertebrates that yielded a 530-bp groEl fragment of A. phagocytophilum. Included are the number of haplotypes

Dermacentor reticulatus

Vegetation

1

1

Haemaphysalis douglasi

Vegetation

1

1

Haemaphysalis flava

Hydropotes inermis

2

1

Ixodes acuminatus

Vegetation

3

1

Ixodes frontalis

Aves

2

1

Ixodes hexagonus

Vegetation

1

1

Erinaceus europaeus

22

1

Martes martes

2

1

Mustela putorius

4

3

Ixodes nipponensis

Vegetation

1

1

Hydropotes inermis

2

1

Ixodes pacificus

Vegetation

2

2

Ixodes pavlovskyi

Vegetation

3

2

Ixodes persulcatus

Vegetation

26

7

Hydropotes inermis

1

1

Rodentia

3

1

Ixodes ricinus

Vegetation

741

101

Aves

6

1

Capreolus capreolus

14

8

Cervus elaphus

5

5

Deer (unknown species)

4

2

Erinaceus europaeus

7

1

Homo sapiens

3

3

Mustela erminea

2

2

Martes martes

8

3

Ovis aries

1

1

Rodentia

3

3

Ixodes trianguliceps

Vegetation

4

4

Rodentia

6

3

Ixodes ventalloi

Vegetation

6

3

Lipoptena cervi

Cervus elaphus

6

5

Rhipicephalus sanguineus (s.l.)

Canis familiaris

1

1

Total

893