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Table 3 Total number of hosts captured of each mammal species during 2017 and 2018, relative infestation rates and mean burden of I. ricinus and I. trianguliceps

From: High-elevational occurrence of two tick species, Ixodes ricinus and I. trianguliceps, at their northern distribution range

Host species

I. ricinus

I. trianguliceps

No. of captures

Prevalencea

Mean burden (± SD)

Prevalencea

Mean burden (± SD)

Apodemus flavicollis

1

100.0

62.0 ± NA

100.0

1.0 ± NA

Apodemus sylvaticus

23

56.5

6.4 ± 13.5

34.8

0.9 ± 1.7

Microtus agrestis

130

18.5

1.7 ± 7.9

6.9

0.1 ± 0.3

Microtus oeconomus

26

50.0

1.5 ± 2.5

23.1

0.3 ± 0.7

Mus musculus

1

100.0

11.0 ± NA

0.0

0.0 ± NA

Myodes glareolus

1325

46.8

3.6 ± 9.0

18.0

0.5 ± 1.8

Myodes rufocanus

88

19.3

0.5 ± 1.4

19.3

0.6 ± 2.0

Neomys fodiens

2

100.0

1.0 ± 0.0

50.0

7.5 ± 10.6

Sorex araneus

1733

30.0

3.3 ± 12.5

20.8

0.8 ± 3.4

Sorex minutus

16

31.3

0.4 ± 0.7

56.3

3.0 ± 4.4

  1. NA indicates that not enough captures were made to compute a standard deviation
  2. aPrevalence is the relative infestation rate, given in percentage infestation