A community approach of pathogens and their arthropod vectors (ticks and fleas) in dogs of African Sub-Sahara

Parasites & Vectors

Table 6 Pathogen prevalence in flea and tick pools collected from infested dogs

Tick and flea pools	Overall	Tanzania (%)			Kenya (%)			Uganda (%)			Nigeria (%)			Ghana (%)			Namibia (%)
Tick and flea pools	Overall	Rural	Urban	P	Rural	Urban	P	Rural	Urban	P	Rural	Urban	P	Rural	Urban	P	Rural	Urban	P
Ticks
B. canis	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0
B. rossi	2.4	0.0	0.0		6.9	0.0		0.0	6.5		1.8	3.9		5.1	0.0		0.0	0.0
B. felis	0.6	4.4	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		1.8	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0
E. chaffeensis	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0
A. platys	10.6	20.0	26.0	ns	0.0	0.0		0.0	6.5		29.8	3.9	**	15.4	13.3	ns	0.0	2.6
A. phagocytophilum	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0
R. conorii	3.7	2.2	0.0		18.1	0.0	**	5.3	6.5		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	2.6
R. africae	2.1	4.4	0.0		1.4	0.0		7.9	0.0		1.8	0.0		7.7	2.2		0.0	0.0
C. burnetti	15.1	11.1	2.0	ns	63.9	0.0	***	15.8	10.9	ns	29.8	2.0	**	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0
H. canis	60.5	75.6	76.0	ns	80.6	62.5	ns	50.0	41.3	ns	91.2	58.8	***	56.4	46.7	ns	29.0	20.5	ns
D. immitis	0.2	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	2.2		0.0	0.0
E. canis	5.4	2.2	8.0		2.8	0.0		0.0	0.0		12.3	13.7	ns	10.3	6.7	ns	3.2	0.0
Tick pools (N)	537	45	50		72	24		38	46		57	51		39	45		31	39
Shannon index		1.2	0.9	ns	1.2	0.0	**	1.0	1.3	ns	1.3	0.9	**	1.2	1.0	ns	0.3	0.6	ns
Fleas
B. henselae	0.8	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	8.3		0.0	0.0
M. haemofelis	14.2	3.7	16.0	ns	22.6	30.8	ns	12.5	10.0	ns	13.6	0.0		5.9	12.5	ns	0.0	11.8
D. caninum	11.9	3.7	4.0		3.8	0.0		27.5	25.0	ns	31.8	0.0		5.9	4.2		0.0	11.8
Flea pools (N)	261	27	25		53	13		40	20		22	1		17	24		2	17
Shannon index		0.7	0.5	ns	0.4	0.0	ns	0.6	0.6	ns	0.6	0.0		0.7	1.0	ns	0.0	0.7

Pathogen prevalence in 261 flea pools and 537 tick pools collected from infested dog individuals in urban and rural areas of six African countries. No pair-wise comparisons have been performed for countries in which less than three dog individuals have been sampled in one of its habitats. For statistical outcomes on macrogeographic contrasts, see Fig. 5
***P < 0.001, **P < 0.01, ns (not-significant) P > 0.05

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