Fig. 5

Three pathogen life-cycles identified by the analyses of camera-trapping data and the molecular analysis of pathogens. A rectangular box contains an illustration of a pathogen life-cycle. A host species is listed by the species name in a rectangular box when it is identified to maintain either the pathogen cycle or the tick life-cycle. An asterisk indicates that no particular host species is identified by the present methodology. Placement of a host species name indicates whether it is the source of the blood meal for a larval tick (top), a nymphal tick (middle) or an adult tick (bottom). A host can be either a reservoir of a pathogen (the host species name is enclosed in an oval shape), a dilution host (square) or a propagation host (name only). Arrow: Progression into the next tick life-cycle (i.e. moulting). Dagger indicates that an additional (transovarial) route is known for this TBP species