Tick-borne pathogens and body condition of cattle in smallholder rural livestock production systems in East and West Africa

Table 1 Macro-geographic variation in the continuous variables included in the Generalized Linear Mixed Models

	Burkina Faso (N° farms: 19)	Ghana (7)	Benin (19)	Nigeria (7)	Ethiopia (24)	Uganda (89)	Tanzania (10)
Vector-competent tick loads
Anaplasma marginale	3.35 ± 1.77	7.03 ± 3.54	65.2 ± 95.81	5.01 ± 6.49	2.68 ± 3.64	13.46 ± 12.11	31.95 ± 31.12
Ehrlichia ruminantium	0.51 ± 0.40	14.91 ± 9.07	32.94 ± 30.84	2.11 ± 1.99	9.95 ± 12.45	20.91 ± 18.89	5.8 ± 4.27
Babesia bovis	2.17 ± 1.72	6.31 ± 3.15	65.2 ± 95.81	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00	6.42 ± 8.53	24.41 ± 29.17
Babesia bigemina	2.17 ± 1.72	6.32 ± 3.16	65.2 ± 95.81	5.01 ± 6.49	1.86 ± 3.22	6.43 ± 8.54	27.7 ± 26.64
Body measures
Condition female	4.83 ± 1.79	5.43 ± 0.41	6.17 ± 0.4	4.46 ± 0.36	4.74 ± 1.01	5.93 ± 1.18	5.37 ± 0.67
male	5.03 ± 1.78	5.29 ± 0.49	6.11 ± 0.41	4.39 ± 0.31	5.06 ± 0.95	5.88 ± 0.79	5.49 ± 0.78
Body weight female	182.85 ± 37.31	93.95 ± 20.04	151.9 ± 40.99	135.16 ± 17.56	122.02 ± 21.8	203.88 ± 51.03	126.03 ± 27.22
male	186.21 ± 44.31	95.32 ± 21.18	152.31 ± 42.22	121.47 ± 22.74	130.4 ± 23.53	227.64 ± 58.1	119.86 ± 22.68

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