Table 3 Prevalence of tick-borne pathogens in individual ticks
Pathogen | Number of individual ticks positive for single and co-infections | |
|---|---|---|
D. nuttalli (n = 203) | I. persulcatus (n = 36) | |
Single | ||
 Rickettsia raoultii | 22 (10.84%) | 7 (19.44%) |
 Candidatus R. tarasevichiae | 3 (1.48%) | - |
 Anaplasma sp. Mongolia | 9 (4.43%) | 8 (22.22%) |
 Coxiella-like endosymbiont | 41 (20.20%) | 5 (13.89%) |
 Babesia venatorum | 8 (3.94%) | – |
Double | ||
 R. raoultii, Anaplasma sp. Mongolia | 6 (2.96%) | – |
 Candidatus R. tarasevichiae, Anaplasma sp. Mongolia | 5 (2.46%) | – |
 Candidatus R. tarasevichiae, Coxiella-like endosymbiont | 1 (0.49%) | – |
 R. raoultii, Coxiella-like endosymbiont | 29 (14.29%) | 3 (8.33%) |
 R. raoultii, B. venatorum | 2 (0.99%) | – |
 Anaplasma sp. Mongolia, Coxiella-like endosymbiont | 4 (1.97%) | 1 (2.78%) |
Triple | ||
 R. raoultii, Anaplasma sp. Mongolia, Coxiella-like endosymbiont | 28 (13.79%) | 1 (2.78%) |
 Candidatus R. tarasevichiae, Anaplasma sp. Mongolia, Coxiella-like endosymbiont | 1 (0.49%) | – |
 R. raoultii, Coxiella-like endosymbiont, B. venatorum | 5 (2.46%) | – |
 Candidatus R. tarasevichiae, Anaplasma sp. Mongolia, B. venatorum | 1 (0.49%) | – |
 Total | 165 (81.82%) | 25 (69.44%) |