Multiple Pathogens Including Potential New Species in Tick Vectors in Côte d’Ivoire

Conclusions/Significance For the first time, we demonstrate the presence of different pathogens such as R. aeschlimannii, C. burnetii, Borrelia sp., A. centrale, A. marginale, and E. ruminantium in ticks in Côte d’Ivoire as well as potential new species of unknown pathogenicity.

Source: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases - January 15, 2016 Category: Tropical Medicine Authors: Cyrille Bilé Ehounoud et al. Source Type: research