Volume 15, Number 4—April 2009
Dispatch
Correlation between Tick Density and Pathogen Endemicity, New Hampshire
Table
Pathogen prevalence and coinfection in 2 regions of different tick density, New Hampshire*
Infection | No. ticks collected |
||
---|---|---|---|
HLI sites | MLI sites | Total | |
Single infection | |||
Borrelia burgdorferi | 237 | 29 | 266 |
Anaplasma phagocytophilum | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Babesia microti |
13 |
2 |
15 |
Multiple infections | |||
B. burgdorferi + A. phagocytophilum | 9 | 0 | 9 |
B. burgdorferi + B. microti | 28 | 3 | 31 |
A. phagocytophilum + B. microti | 0 | 0 | 0 |
B. burgdorferi + A. phagocytophilum + B. microti | 0 | 0 | 0 |
*HLI, high Lyme disease incidence; MLI, medium Lyme disease incidence.