Volume 15, Number 12—December 2009
Research
Tick-borne Agents in Rodents, China, 2004–2006
Lin Zhan1, Wu-Chun Cao1
, Chen-Yi Chu, Bao-Gui Jiang, Fang Zhang, Wei Liu, J. Stephen Dumler, Xiao-Ming Wu, Shu-Qing Zuo, Pan-He Zhang, Hai-Nan Huang, Qiu-Min Zhao, Na Jia, Hong Yang, Jan H. Richardus, and J. Dik F. Habbema
, Chen-Yi Chu, Bao-Gui Jiang, Fang Zhang, Wei Liu, J. Stephen Dumler, Xiao-Ming Wu, Shu-Qing Zuo, Pan-He Zhang, Hai-Nan Huang, Qiu-Min Zhao, Na Jia, Hong Yang, Jan H. Richardus, and J. Dik F. HabbemaTable
Infection rates for 4 tick-borne agents in rodents, People’s Republic of China, 2004–2006*
| Study site | No. rodents tested | No. (%) rodents positive |
p value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anaplasma phagocytophilum | Borrelia burgdorferi | SFG rickettsiae | Francisella tularenesis | |||
| Heilongjiang Province | 64 | 3 (4.7) | 3 (4.7) | 1 (1.6) | 5 (7.8) | 0.424 |
| Jilin Province | 205 | 20 (9.8) | 17 (8.3) | 0 | 26 (12.7) | 0.329 |
| IMAR | 148 | 0 | 8 (5.4) | 32 (21.6) | 2 (1.4) | 0.0001 |
| XJAR | 44 | 0 | 1 (2.3) | 4 (9.1) | 2 (4.5) | 0.348 |
| Zhejiang Province | 216 | 16 (7.4) | 16 (7.4) | 21 (9.7) | 0 | 0.598 |
| Guizhou Province | 28 | 0 | 2 (7.1) | 6 (21.4) | 0 | 0.252 |
| Total | 705 | 39 (5.5) | 47 (6.7) | 64 (9.1) | 35 (5.0) | |
*SFG, spotted fever group; IMAR, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region; XJAR, Xinjiang Autonomous Region.
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
