Table 2 Prevalence of major Borrelia genospecies and tick genera across Eurasia.

From: Geographical Distribution and Prevalence of Borrelia Genospecies in Eurasian Ticks

Genospecies/Tick genera

Record Counts

Average Prevalence (%)a

95% CI Upper(%)

95% CI Lower(%)

Genospecies

B. burgdorferi s. l.

2528

14.89

14.27

15.50

B. afzelii

700

7.95

7.27

8.63

B. garinii

659

6.63

5.99

7.27

B. burgdorferi sensu stricto

426

3.32

2.75

3.88

B. valaisiana

422

3.23

2.54

3.93

B. lusitaniae

145

6.68

5.02

8.33

B. spielmanii

155

1.95

1.17

2.73

Co-infection

258

4.17

3.12

5.23

Untypeable

182

4.48

3.13

5.83

Tick Genera

Ixodes

1861

16.49

15.78

17.20

Dermacentor

137

10.02

7.42

12.61

Haemaphysalis

168

10.40

7.63

13.17

Hyalomma

48

5.47

1.51

9.43

Rhipicephalus

69

11.01

6.16

15.87

  1. aCalculated as the arithmetic mean of prevalences from individual studies, without weighting for the sample size of each study.