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Our Tick Testing Data
Each tick submitted for testing contributes to the research being conducted here at TickCheck. By keeping records of all the results generated, we have been able to gain valuable insights into disease prevalence and co-infection rates. The comprehensive testing panel has been especially helpful in contributing to this research by ensuring all diseases and coinfections are accounted for when examining a tick. Our current research shows that 72% of tick tested are infected with at least one disease causing organism, 45% are co-infected with two or more, 17% carry three or more, and 7% of the ticks tested carry four or more.
Infection Visualization by Tick Species
All Ticks Tested
72% Positive for Infection
Negative (28%)
86% Positive for Infection
Negative (14%)
63% Positive for Infection
Negative (37%)
47% Positive for Infection
Negative (53%)
Coinfection Visualization
4+ Coinfection (7%)
3+ Coinfection (17%)
2+ Coinfection (45%)
No Co-infection (55%)
Pathogenic Prevalence in Florida
The bars below show the positive/negative prevalence ratio of selected pathogens we test for.
These pathogens were observed in ticks from Florida.
Data set includes tests performed since TickCheck's founding in 2014 and is updated in real time.
Borrelia burgdorferi (lone star tick) associated with Lyme disease
Sample size of 35 ticks.
Warning: Low Sample Size
0% Positive
100% Negative
Ehrlichia chaffeensis associated with ehrlichiosis
Sample size of 37 ticks.
Warning: Low Sample Size
Rickettsia spp. associated with Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Sample size of 31 ticks.
Warning: Low Sample Size
48% Positive
52% Negative
Francisella tularensis associated with tularemia
Sample size of 29 ticks.
Warning: Low Sample Size
0% Positive
100% Negative
Borrelia lonestari associated with STARI
Sample size of 30 ticks.
Warning: Low Sample Size
10% Positive
90% Negative
Pathogen and co-infected tick prevalence data is © TickCheck, and is derived from our tick testing results and laboratory research.
