Volume 10, Number 4—April 2004
Dispatch
Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Babesia microti, and Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes scapularis, Southern Coastal Maine
Mary S. Holman*
, Diane A. Caporale†1, John Goldberg*, Eleanor H. Lacombe*, Charles B. Lubelczyk*, Peter W. Rand*, and Robert P. Smith*
, Diane A. Caporale†1, John Goldberg*, Eleanor H. Lacombe*, Charles B. Lubelczyk*, Peter W. Rand*, and Robert P. Smith*
Table
Prevalence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Babesia microti, and Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes scapularis, Maine
| Y | n | No. (%) |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. phagocytophilum No. (%) | Ba. microti | B. burgdorferi | B. burgdorferi and A. phagocytophilum | B. burgdorferi and Ba. microti | |||
| 1995 |
105 |
10 (9.5)a,b |
2 (1.9)a |
31 (29.5)a |
2 (1.9) |
1 (1.0) |
|
| 1996 |
196 |
1 (0.5) |
1 (0.5)a |
35 (17.9)a |
0 |
1 (0.5) |
|
| 1997 | 93 | 0 | 0 | 22 (23.7) | 0 | 0 | |
aTotal includes co-infected ticks.
bFour pools of salivary glands from 2–3 ticks from the same host tested positive. This table presents data assuming only one tick from each pool was infected.
1Dr. Caporale was working at the University of Maine at Orono at the time of the study. She is currently at the Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI.
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