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Table 1 An overview of sample sizes from various counties of Norway, the number and proportion of samples positive for A. phagocytophilum, the number and proportion of successful groEL sequences, and the number of samples identified as Ecotype I and II

From: Infection prevalence and ecotypes of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in moose Alces alces, red deer Cervus elaphus, roe deer Capreolus capreolus and Ixodes ricinus ticks from Norway

Organism

County

Total

Positives

Sequences obtained

Ecotype

n

n

%

n

%

I

II

Questing ticks

 Nymph

Sogn & Fjordane

4857

238

4.90

53

22.27

53

 

 Adult female

Sogn & Fjordane

624

73

11.70

29

39.73

29

 

 Adult male

Sogn & Fjordane

625

80

12.80

20

25.00

20

 

 Nymph

Møre & Romsdal

1619

82

5.06

23

28.05

22

1

 Adult female

Møre & Romsdal

205

36

17.56

9

25.00

7

2

 Adult male

Møre & Romsdal

239

26

10.88

5

19.23

5

 

 Nymph

Akershus, Østfold

872

9

1.03

1

11.11

1

 

 Adult female

Akershus, Østfold

91

3

3.30

0

0

  

 Adult male

Akershus, Østfold

109

8

7.34

1

12.50

 

1

Cervids

 Roe deer

Akershus

28

23

82.14

13

56.52

 

13

 Moose

Vest-Agder

51

39

76.47

19

48.72

11

8

Telemark, Vestfold

60

39

65.00

14

35.90

8

6

 Red deer

Sogn & Fjordane

126

120

95.24

73

60.83

73

 

Telemark, Vestfold

15

12

80.00

2

16.67

2

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