Table 4. Detection of head lice clades and pathogens in the pygmy population in Congo-Brazzaville.
| Villages | Sample no. (%) | Acinetobacter species | Borrelia species | Moraxellaceae bacterium Infection rate no. (%) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infection rate no. (%) | Species identification | Infection rate no. (%) | Species identification | |||
| Béné-Gamboma | ||||||
| Person | 72 (57.1%) | 53 | 1 | |||
| Head lice | 330 (52.3%) | 133 | 2 | |||
| Clade A | 131 | 62 | AJ, AU, AJn, AB, AS, AL | 2 | ||
| Clade D | 65 | 24 | AJ, AU, AJn, AB, AN, AS, AL | - | ||
| Clade C | 134 | 47 | AJ, AU, AJn, AB, AN, AS, AT | - | ||
| Thanry-Ipendja | ||||||
| Person | 18 (14.3%) | 12 | 1 | |||
| Head lice | 137 (21.7%) | 41 | 1 | |||
| Clade A | 137 | 41 | AJ, AU, AJn, AB, AN | 1 | ||
| Pokola | ||||||
| Person | 36 (28.6%) | 28 | 7 | 2 | ||
| Head lice | 163 (25.9%) | 61 | 11 | 3 | ||
| Clade A | 163 | 61 | AJ, AU, AJn, AB, AS, AL | 11 | BR (n = 10), BT (n = 1) | 3 |
| Total | ||||||
| Person | 126 | 93 (73.8%) | 7 | 4 | ||
| Head lice | 630 | 235 (37.3%) | 11 | 6 | ||
| Clade A | 431 (68.4%) | 164 (26%) | AJ, AU, AJn, AB, AN, AS, AL | 11 | BR, BT | 6 |
| Clade D | 65 (10.3%) | 24 (3.8%) | AJ, AU, AJn, AB, AN, AS, AL | - | - | - |
| Clade C | 134 (21.3%) | 47 (7.5%) | AJ, AU, AJn, AB, AN, AS, AT | - | - | - |
AJ: Acinetobacter junii; AU: A. ursingii; AJn: A.johnsonii; AB: A.baumannii; AN: A. nosocomialis; AS: A. schandleri; AL: A. lwoffii; AT: A. towneri.
BR: Borrelia recurrentis; BT: B. theileri.