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 74% of tick tested are infected with at least one disease causing organism, 48% are co-infected with two or more, 18% carry three or more, and 9% of the ticks tested carry four or more.

Infection Visualization by Tick Species

Coinfection Visualization

Pathogenic Prevalence in Maine

Borrelia burgdorferi (deer tick) associated with Lyme disease

Sample size of 124 ticks.

Borrelia burgdorferi (American dog tick) associated with Lyme disease

Sample size of 26 ticks. Warning: Low Sample Size

Anaplasma phagocytophilum associated with anaplasmosis

Sample size of 60 ticks.

Babesia microti associated with babesiosis

Sample size of 56 ticks.

Bartonella spp. associated with bartonellosis

Sample size of 27 ticks. Warning: Low Sample Size

Pathogen and co-infected tick prevalence data is © TickCheck, and is derived from our tick testing results and laboratory research.