Table 2 Overview of the distribution of the most frequently collected tick species from cats and dogs over the German federal states (number per tick species/% of total ticks)
| Â | Dogs | Cats | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | I. ricinus | D. reticulatus | I. hexagonus | Total | I. ricinus | D. reticulatus | I. hexagonus | Total |
Baden-Württemberg | 763/90.40% | 42/4.98% | 19/2.25% | 824/97.63% | 527/85.28% | 1/0.16% | 61/9.87% | 589/95.31% |
Bavaria | 1,190/86.17% | 151/10.93% | 27/1.96% | 1,368/99.06% | 1,370/87.48% | 1/0.06% | 145/9.26% | 1,516/96.81% |
Berlin | 70/67.31% | 32/30.77% | 0/0.00% | 102/98.08% | 61/96.83% | 1/1.59% | 0/0.00% | 62/98.41% |
Brandenburg | 282/32.49% | 552/63.59% | 9/1.04% | 843/97.12% | 388/94.87% | 0/0.00% | 10/2.44% | 398/97.31% |
Bremen | 93/92.08% | 0/0.00% | 6/5.94% | 99/98.02% | 30/90.91% | 0/0.00% | 3/9.09% | 33/100% |
Hamburg | 35/94.59% | 0/0.00% | 0/0.00% | 35/94.59% | 24/100% | 0/0.00% | 0/0.00% | 24/100% |
Hesse | 454/65.42% | 223/32.13% | 9/1.30% | 686/98.85% | 317/96.35% | 2/0.61% | 7/2.13% | 326/99.09% |
Lower Saxony | 1,188/88.59% | 104/7.76% | 23/1.72% | 1,315/98.06% | 821/94.69% | 0/0.00% | 28/3.23% | 849/97.92% |
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | 210/92.92% | 13/5.75% | 2/0.88% | 225/99.56% | 184/85.19% | 0/0.00% | 29/13.43% | 213/98.61% |
North Rhine-Westphalia | 1,265/96.27% | 13/0.99% | 27/2.05% | 1,305/99.32% | 693/95.98% | 1/0.14% | 15/2.08% | 709/98.20% |
Rhineland-Palatinate | 560/94.44% | 25/4.22% | 4/0.67% | 589/99.33% | 502/94.36% | 2/0.38% | 9/1.69% | 513/96.43% |
Saarland | 136/90.67% | 11/7.33% | 0/0.00% | 147/98.00% | 113/89.68% | 0/0.00% | 11/8.73% | 124/98.41% |
Saxony | 338/62.71% | 185/34.32% | 8/1.48% | 531/98.52% | 576/94.89% | 2/0.33% | 13/2.14% | 591/97.36% |
Saxony-Anhalt | 166/30.07% | 368/66.67% | 8/1.45% | 542/98.19% | 253/91.34% | 5/1.81% | 18/6.50% | 276/99.64% |
Schleswig-Holstein | 119/95.95% | 0/0.00% | 9/2.28% | 388/98.23% | 309/97.17% | 0/0.00% | 2/0.63% | 311/97.80% |
Thuringia | 379/78.81% | 28/18.54% | 2/1.00% | 149/98.68% | 133/75.14% | 0/0.00% | 29/16.38% | 162/91.53% |
Total* | 7,248/78.02% | 1,747/18.81% | 153/1.65% | 9,148/98.47% | 3,601/91.53% | 15/0.22% | 380/5.52% | 6,696/97.27% |