Table 5.

Tick pools evaluated for the presence of Rickettsia spp. in Villeta town (November–December 2011, and July 2012)

Village	Tick species (source)	Positive pools*/total of pools	Total of ticks (% MIR)	BLAST analysis
Chapaima	Amblyomma cajennense s.l. (DA)	0/5
	Dermacentor nitens (DA)	0/81
	Rhipicephalus sanguineus s.l. (DA)	0/3
	Rhipicephalus microplus (DA)	0/1
Cune	A. cajennense s.l. (DA)	0/7
	D. nitens (DA)	0/11
	R. sanguineus s.l. (DA)	0/1
	R. microplus (DA)	0/22
Mani	R. microplus (V)	1/26	229 (0.4)	Rickettsia amblyommii†
Naranjal	A. cajennense s.l. (DA)	1/43	43 (2.3)	Rickettsia sp.‡
	A. cajennense s.l. (V)	1/32	51 (2.0)	R. rickettsii§
	Amblyomma ovale (DA)	0/1
	Amblyomma sp. (V)	1/23	104 (1.0)	R. rickettsii¶
	Dermacentor sp. (V)	0/8
	Ixodes luciae (WA)	0/16
	Ixodes sp. (WA)	0/2
	R. sanguineus (DA)	0/1
Urban area	A. cajennense s.l. (DA)	0/12
	D. nitens (DA)	0/58
	R. sanguineus s.l. (DA)	0/69
Salitre Blanco	A. cajennense s.l. (DA)	0/5
	D. nitens (DA)	1/4	10 (10)	R. rickettsii‖
	R. microplus (DA)	1/15	16 (6.3)	Rickettsia sp.**

DA = domestic animals; MIR = minimum infection rate (no. of positive pools/total no. of individual ticks) × 100; V = Vegetation; WA = wild animals.

^*Positive pools for ompA or ompB.

^†Pool “M841”: 15 larvae from vegetation positive for ompA gene.

^‡Pool “M235”: four males from cattle positive for ompA gene (94.9% identity with Rickettsia conorii).

^§Pool “M827”: 10 nymphs from vegetation positive for ompA gene.

^¶Pool “M822”: 15 larvae from vegetation positive for ompA gene.

^‖Pool “M181”: three males from a horse positive for ompB gene.

^**Pool “M196”: one female from a cow positive for ompB gene (99.7% identity with Rickettsia monacensis).