Volume 27, Number 4—April 2021
CME ACTIVITY - Research
Infections with Tickborne Pathogens after Tick Bite, Austria, 2015–2018
Mateusz Markowicz
, Anna-Margarita Schötta, Dieter Höss, Michael Kundi, Christina Schray, Hannes Stockinger, and Gerold Stanek
, Anna-Margarita Schötta, Dieter Höss, Michael Kundi, Christina Schray, Hannes Stockinger, and Gerold Stanek
Table 1
Tickborne pathogens detected in different life stages of ticks after tick bite, Austria, 2015–2018
| Pathogen or tick | Tick life stage |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adult females | Adult males | Nymphs | Larvae | Not identified | Total | |
| Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato | 29 | 3 | 159 | 1 | 2 | 194 |
| B. afzelii | 10 | 1 | 115 | 1 | 2 | 132 |
| B. garinii/B. bavariensis | 7 | 1 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 32 |
| B. burgdorferi sensu stricto | 3 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| B. valaisiana | 5 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| B. lusitaniae | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| B. spielmanii | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Co-infections |
0 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
| Rickettsia spp. | 14 | 0 | 69 | 37 | 0 | 120 |
| R. helvetica | 12 | 0 | 56 | 36 | 0 | 104 |
| R. monacensis | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| Candidatus R. mendelii | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| New endosymbiont | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Candidatus R. thierseensis | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Not identified |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
| Anaplasmataceae | ||||||
| Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis | 5 | 1 | 46 | 1 | 1 | 54 |
| Anaplasma phagocytophilum |
1 |
0 |
29 |
0 |
0 |
30 |
| Babesia spp. | 3 | 0 | 20 | 5 | 0 | 28 |
| B. microti | 3 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| B. divergens | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| B.. venatorum |
0 |
0 |
1 |
5 |
0 |
6 |
| Relapsing fever borreliae | ||||||
| B. miyamotoi | 1 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 1 | 24 |
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