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Table 2

Results of PCR assays for the different tested pathogens (number of positive samples/number of tested samples, with the corresponding percentages in brackets), for each tick species from the 4 study areas in France.

Sites Tick species Babesia/Theileria spp. Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. Anaplasmataceae Anaplasma phagocytophilum Anaplasma marginale Anaplasma ovis Rickettsia spp. SFG Rickettsia
Bauges Ixodes ricinus 0/155 (0) 1/155 (0.6) 102/155 (65.8) 18/155 (11.6) 0/155 (0) 0/155 (0) 68/155 (43.9) 10/155 (6.5)
Bazès Ixodes ricinus 1/202 (0.5) 0/202 (0) 62/202 (30.7) 2/202 (1.0) 0/202 (0) 0/202 (0) 12/202 (5.9) 2/202 (1.0)
Caroux-Espinouse Ixodes ricinus 1/93 (1.1) 8/93 (8.6) 70/93 (75.3) 14/93 (15.1) 0/93 (0) 1/88* (1.1) 3/93 (3.2) 1/93 (1.1)
Rhipicephalus sanguineus s.l. 0/55 (0) 7/55 (12.7) 0/55 (0) 0/55 (0) 5/54* (9.3) 3/55 (5.5) 3/55 (5.5)
Haemaphysalis punctata 0/66 (0) 8/66 (12.1) 0/66 (0) 0/66 (0) 0/65* (0) 0/66 (0)
Cinto Rhipicephalus bursa 5/206 (2.4) 37/206 (17.9) 0/206 (0) 0/206 (0) 0/206 (0) 11/206 (5.3) 2/206 (1.0)
Haemaphysalis sulcata 0/14 (0) 2/14 (14.3) 0/14 (0) 0/14 (0) 0/14 (0) 11/14 (78.5) 0/14 (0)
*

Not enough DNA for a few samples to test for Anaplasma ovis.

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