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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 42% of tick tested are infected with at least one pathogen, 30% are co-infected with two or more, 8% carry three or more, and 3% of the ticks tested carry four or more.
Infection Visualization by Tick Species
All Ticks Tested
42% Positive for Infection
Negative (58%)
21% Positive for Infection
Negative (79%)
16% Positive for Infection
Negative (84%)
3% Positive for Infection
Negative (97%)
Coinfection Visualization
4+ Coinfection (3%)
3+ Coinfection (8%)
2+ Coinfection (30%)
No Co-infection (70%)
Pathogenic Prevalence by Species & Life Stage
Generally, nymphal ticks will have fewer pathogen because they've had fewer opportunities to feed. Our data shows this as well.
Infection Rate for Borrelia burgdorferi between Adult Female and Nymphal Deer Ticks
Nymphal Deer Ticks
Sample size of 3,826 ticks.
23% Positive
77% Negative
Adult Female Deer Ticks
Sample size of 9,387 ticks.
36% Positive
64% Negative
Infection Rate for Anaplasma phagocytophilum between Adult Female and Nymphal Deer Ticks
Nymphal Deer Ticks
Sample size of 3,502 ticks.
Adult Female Deer Ticks
Sample size of 8,976 ticks.
10% Positive
90% Negative
Infection Rate for Rickettsia amblyommii between Adult Female and Nymphal Lone Star Ticks
Nymphal Lone Star Ticks
Sample size of 1,084 ticks.
49% Positive
51% Negative
Adult Female Lone Star Ticks
Sample size of 385 ticks.
50% Positive
50% Negative
Pathogenic Prevalence in Wyoming
The bars below show the positive/negative prevalence ratio of selected pathogens we test for.
These pathogens were observed in ticks from Wyoming.
Data set includes tests performed since TickCheck's founding in 2014 and is updated in real time.
Unforunately, we have no data for Wyoming yet. (A minimum of 25 cases are needed for a pathogen to be displayed here).
Pathogen and co-infected tick prevalence data is © TickCheck, and is derived from our tick testing results and laboratory research.