Fig. 3

a, b Graphical overview of the tick (a) and flea (b) communities found in urban and rural areas of the six African countries joining the AFSCAN project (see Additional file 1: Table S3 for raw data). Numbers represent the PCR signals allocated to a tick taxon in the infested cats. Per cat, an extraction on a pooled set of ticks was done, before the PCR analysis was executed; a maximum of one PCR-positive per cat could be obtained for each of the taxa investigated