Table 4.

Tick (Acari: Ixodoidea) infestations of small mammals in southeastern Kenya (Taita Hills, Shimba Hills and Nguruman), 1998–2000.

	Amblyomma sp.	Haemaphysalis sp.	Ixodes sp.	Ixodes alluaudi	Ixodes cumulatimpunctatus	Ixodes muniensis	Rhipicephalus sp.
Host species:
Crocidura fuscomurina	—	—	100%, 1.0, 1, 1L	—	—	—	—
Crocidura hildegardiae	—	—	33%, 2.0, 1–3, 3N, 1L	33%, 1.0, 1, 2N	—	—	—
Crocidura jacksoni	—	—	11%, 1.0, 1, 1L	22%, 2.0, 1–3, 4L	—	—	—
Crocidura viaria	—	43%, 5.3, 1–14, 16L	14%, 1.0, 1, 1N	—	—	—	—
Graphiurus microtis	—	—	14%, 1.7, 1–2, 2N, 3L	—	—	9%, 1.5, 1–2, 3N	—
Beamys hindei	33%, 1.0, 1, 1N*	—	33%, 1.0, 1, 1N	—	—	—	—
Lemniscomys striatus	—	—	—	—	—	—	100%, 3.0, 3, 3L
Mus minutoides	—	14%, 3.0, 3, 3N	—	—	—	—	—
Mus triton	—	100%, 4.0, 4, 4L	—	—	—	—	—
Praomys delectorum	—	—	0.5%, 1.0, 1, 1N	19%, 1.5, 1–4, 9F, 28N, 18L	0.5%, 1.0, 1, 1F	—	—

^*Infestation data listed are prevalence (% of hosts infested), mean intensity (mean per infested host), infestation range (or a single number if there was no range) and numbers of each stage collected, respectively; M = Male(s), F = Female(s), N = Nymph(s), L = Larva(e).