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Table 2
Tick species and associated tick-borne pathogens identified in different host animals in Malawi.
| Tick species | Tick number | Animal spp. | Number and prevalence of ticks positive for each tick-borne pathogen | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. mar (%) | A. ovis (%) | A. bovis (%) | B. big (%) | B. bovis (%) | T. mutans (%) | T. parva (%) | E. rum (%) | Total (%) | |||
| Amblyomma sp. (n = 61) | |||||||||||
| A. variegatum | 61 | Cattle Goats Sheep | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 (39.3) | 24 (39.3) |
| Hyalomma sp. (n = 99) | |||||||||||
| H. truncatum | 27 | Cattle Goats Sheep | 3 (11.1) | 14 (51.8) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 (33.3) | 26 (96.3) |
| H. rufipes | 72 | Cattle Goats Sheep | 8 (11.1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 (11.1) |
| Rhipicephalus sp. (n = 804) | |||||||||||
| R. decoloratus | 127 | Cattle Goats Sheep | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 (24.4) | 0 | 12 (9.5) | 37 (29.1) | 0 | 80 (63.0) |
| R. evertsi | 94 | Cattle | 11 (11.7) | 7 (7.5) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 (9.6) | 16 (17.0) | 0 | 43 (45.7) |
| R. appendiculatus | 225 | Cattle Goats Sheep | 26 (11.6) | 19 (8.4) | 0 | 22 (9.8) | 5 (2.2) | 0 | 69 (30.7) | 0 | 141 (62.7) |
| R. microplus | 294 | Cattle Goats Sheep | 9 (3.1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 (1.0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 (4.1) |
| R. annulatus | 4 | Goats | 0 | 0 | 1 (25.0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (25.0) |
| R. sanguineus s. l. | 35 | Cattle | 5 (14.3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 (14.3) |
| R. simus | 19 | Cattle | 0 | 0 | 6 (31.6) | 0 | 0 | 9 (47.4) | 0 | 0 | 15 (79.0) |
| R. pravus | 6 | Cattle | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (33.3) | 0 | 2 (33.3) |
| Total | 964 | 62 (6.4) | 40 (4.2) | 7 (0.7) | 53 (5.5) | 8 (0.8) | 30 (3.1) | 124 (12.9) | 33 (3.4) | 357 (37.0) | |
A. mar = Anaplasma marginale; B. big = Babesia bigemina; E. rum = Ehrlichia ruminantium
Values indicate the absolute number of PCR-positive ticks.
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