Table 4 Patterns of Anaplasma spp. prevalence in the ticks, grouped by tick species, tick gender and the altitude of the sampling sites
From: Molecular detection of Anaplasma infections in ixodid ticks from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Group | Number of tested | Number of infected (n)/Infection rate (%) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A. phagocytophilum | P-value | A. bovis | P-value | A. ovis | P-value | A. capra | P-value | |||
Tick | H. qinghaiensis | 454 | 22/4.8 | 0.0032 | 63/13.9 | 0.230 | 18/4.0 | 0.000057 | 33/7.3 | 0.0056 |
H. tibetensis | 2 | 0 | 0 | Â | 0 | Â | 0 | |||
H. danieli | 42 | 4/9.5 | 5/11.9 | Â | 0 | Â | 0 | |||
D. abaensis | 263 | 6/2.3 | 32/12.2 | Â | 9/3.4 | Â | 13/4.9 | |||
D. silvarum | 94 | 0 | 0 | Â | 0 | Â | 0 | |||
D. nuttalli | 246 | 2/0.8 | 21/8.5 | Â | 35/14.2 | Â | 4/1.6 | |||
I. crenulatus | 3 | 0 | 1/33.3 | Â | 0 | Â | 0 | |||
Gender | Female | 512 | 16/3.1 | 0.935 | 47/9.2 | 0.045 | 23/4.5 | 0.312 | 14/2.7 | 0.0077 |
Male | 592 | 18/3.0 | 75/12.7 | 39/6.6 | 36/6.1 | |||||
Altitude | ≤ 3000 m | 461 | 20/4.3 | 0.015 | 54/11.7 | 0.037 | 30/6.5 | 0.316 | 32/6.9 | 0.000066 |
|  | 3000–3900 m | 385 | 4/1.0 | 31/8.1 | 32/8.3 | 3/0.8 | ||||
|  | ≥ 4000 m | 258 | 10/3.9 | 37/14.3 | 0 | 15/5.8 | ||||