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Volume 20, Number 12—December 2014
Dispatch

Two Anaplasma phagocytophilum Strains in Ixodes scapularis Ticks, Canada

Chantel N. Krakowetz, Antonia Dibernardo, L. Robbin Lindsay, and Neil B. ChiltonComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada (C.N. Krakowetz, N.B. Chilton); Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (A. Dibernardo, L.R. Lindsay)

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Table 1

Anaplasma phagocytophilum-PCR–positive blacklegged ticks collected from various provinces during 2007–2010, Canada

Location 2007
2008
2009
2010
2007–2010
No. ticks No. + No. ticks No. + No. ticks No. + No. ticks No. + No. ticks No. + (%)
Prairie Provinces
Alberta* 9 0 25 0 13 0 42 3 89 3 (3.4)
Saskatchewan* 5 2 3 1 1 1 1 0 10 4 (40.0)
Manitoba
35
2

156
4

119
6

260
20

570
32 (5.6)
Central Canada
Ontario 1,187 4 1,402 3 856 3 962 3 4,407 13 (0.3)
Quebec
982
13

1,687
26

1,026
8

1,002
24

4,697
71 (1.5)
Atlantic Provinces
New Brunswick 129 1 174 0 189 4 271 10 763 15 (2.0)
Nova Scotia 201 2 394 4 378 4 676 9 1,649 19 (1.2)
Prince Edward
Island 54 3 76 1 107 3 122 3 359 10 (2.8)
Newfoundland*
11
0

9
0

15
1

27
1

62
2 (3.2)
Total 2,613 27 3,926 39 2,704 30 3,363 73 12,606 169 (1.3)

*Data from these provinces were not included in the statistical analyses because sample sizes (2007–2010) were <100 ticks.

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