Table. Tick collections in villages and detection of African swine fever virus in ticks, Senegal*.
| Sampling site | Pigpen no. | Burrows | Presence of Ornithodoros sonrai† |
Infection with O. sonrai‡ | Last ASF outbreak | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reference | Within buildings | Near buildings | |||||
| Sassa-Niakhar-Diohine | 1 | 11 | + | – | + (4) | 0/4 | S 2005 |
| 2 | 6 | – | + (5) | 1/6 | S 2005 | ||
| 3 | 1 | – | – | ||||
| 4 | 1 | – | – | S 2005 | |||
| 5 | 0 | – | – | S 2005 | |||
| Fatick | 6 | 7 | + | + (3) | + (2) | 1/2 | |
| 7 | 4 | + (2) | + (2) | 0/6 | |||
| 8 | 0 | – | – | ||||
| 9 | 1 | – | + (1) | 0/1 | |||
| 10 | 2 | – | + (1) | ||||
| Foundiougne | 11 | 7 | + | – | + (1) | 1/2 | S 2005 |
| 12 | 3 | – | – | S 2005 | |||
| 13 | 2 | – | – | S 2005 | |||
| 14 | 1 | – | – | Sp 2005 | |||
| 15 | 2 | – | – | S 2005 | |||
| Sokone | 16 | 6 | + | – | + (1) | 1/7 | S 2004 |
| 17 | 3 | – | – | S 2004 | |||
| 18 | 1 | – | – | ||||
| 19 | 3 | – | + (3) | 0/6 | |||
| 20 | 4 | – | - | ||||
| Karang | 21 | 6 | – | – | – | ||
| 22 | 10 | – | – | ||||
| 23 | 2 | – | – | S 2005 | |||
| 24 | 4 | – | – | ||||
| 25 | 2 | – | – | ||||
*ASF, African swine fever; +, positive; –, negative; S, summer; Sp, spring. Two other ticks from wild areas in Fatalah and Sipo forests were tested for AFSV and found negative. †Values in parentheses are no. infested burrows or cracks. ‡Values are no. infected ticks/no. tested.