Volume 17, Number 5—May 2011
Dispatch
Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae in Ticks, Germany
Cornelia Silaghi
, Dietmar Hamel, Claudia Thiel, Kurt Pfister, and Martin Pfeffer
Table
Rickettsia spp. found in ticks from different sites, Germany, 2008–2009*
| State (region) | Site† | No. positive/total no. (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ixodes ricinus ticks |
Dermacentor reticulatus ticks |
D. marginatus ticks |
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| M | F | Nymphs‡ | M | F | M | F | ||||
| Saarland (West) | A | 1/6 (16.6) | 0/6 ( 0) | 1–3/8 (12.5–37.5) | 5/14 (35.7) | 7/14 (50) | NA | NA | ||
| B | 8/26 (30.8) | 6/35 (17.1) | 3–7/14 (21.4–50.0) | 67/128 (52.3) | 71/153 (46.4) | 1/8 (12.5) | 1/7 (14.3) | |||
| C |
2/4 (50.0) |
0/2 (0) |
2–7/14 (14.3–50.0) |
9/35 (25.7) |
8/39 (20.5) |
NA |
NA |
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| Bavaria (South) |
D |
11/58 (19.0) |
8/42 (19.0) |
6/28 (21.4) |
11/40 (27.5) |
30/95 (31.6) |
NA |
NA |
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| Saxony (East) | E | 5/56 (8.9) | 10/45 (22.2) | 0/6 (0) | 144/190 (75.8) | 236/309 (76.4) | NA | NA | ||
| F | 1/4 (25.0) | 1/6 (16.6) | 2–10/10 (20.0–100) | 17/21 (80.1) | 21/29 (72.4) | NA | NA | |||
| G | 0/2 (0) | 1/6 (16.6) | 1–5/13 (7.7–38.4) | 30/80 (37.5) | 50/111 (45.0) | NA | NA | |||
| H | 8/53 (15.1) | 4/74 (5.4) | 4–11/35 (11.4–31.4) | 10/16 (62.5) | 33/48 (68.1) | NA | NA | |||
| I |
7/104 (6.7) |
5/81 (6.2) |
1/34 (2.9) |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
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| Total | A–I | 43/313 (13.7) | 35/297 (11.7) | 20–50/162 (12.3–30.1) | 293/524 (55.5) | 457/798 (57.1) | 1/8 (12.5) | 1/7 (14.3) | ||
*NA, not available.
†For exact location of site, see Figure.
‡In the regions Saarland and Saxony, some of the nymphs were placed in pools of up to 5 specimens; range of positive ticks indicates the possible minimum and maximum number of ticks positive for Rickettsia spp. in a pool.
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