Volume 17, Number 9—September 2011
Dispatch
Differential Risk for Lyme Disease along Hiking Trail, Germany
Table 2
Prevalence of Borrelia genospecies in questing nymphal and adult Ixodes ricinus ticks sampled at different sites along a trail, southern Germany, May–October 2006 and March–October 2007
Study site and tick stage |
No. ticks examined |
% Ticks infected |
% Ticks harboring Borrelia spp.* |
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afz |
gar |
val |
bur |
lus |
spi |
bav |
bis |
miy |
>1 genospecies |
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Pasture | ||||||||||||
Nymph | 104 | 6.7 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 2.9 | 0 |
Adult |
33 |
6.1 |
3.0 |
0 |
3.0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Meadow | ||||||||||||
Nymph | 188 | 26.6 | 17.6 | 2.7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 2.7 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.5† |
Adult |
58 |
17.2 |
10.3 |
3.4 |
0 |
1.7 |
0 |
0 |
3.4 |
0 |
0 |
1.7† |
Fallow land | ||||||||||||
Nymph | 502 | 22.9 | 11.0 | 5.2 | 4.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0 | 1.6 | 1.6‡ |
Adult | 291 | 23.4 | 6.9 | 4.5 | 6.9 | 2.7 | 0 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 2.4 | 0.3† |
*afz, afzelii; gar, garinii; val, valaisiana; bur, burgdorferi; lus, lusitaniae; spi, spielmanii; bav, bavariensis (9); bis, bissettii-like, miy,miyamotoi.
†Co-infection of B. afzelii and B. burgdorferi s.s.
‡Co-infection of B. garinii and B. valaisiana in 4 nymphs, B. afzelii and B. spielmanii in 2 nymphs, B. valaisiana and B. lusitaniae in 1 nymph, B. spielmanii and B. miyamotoi in 1 nymph.
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