TABLE 2.
Overall infection rates of ticks with target pathogens per province.
| Provinces | Coxiella burnetii | Rickettsia sp. | Ehrlichia/Anaplasma | Ehrlichia canis | Anaplasma phagocytophilum | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Dogs | ||||||||||
| FS | 30/55 | 55 | 28/54 | 52 | 9/50 | 18 | 13/50 | 26 | 11/52 | 21 |
| KZN | 18/56 | 32 | 11/52 | 21 | 12/55 | 22 | 10/55 | 18 | 0/55 | 0 |
| NW | 5/16 | 31 | 6/16 | 38 | 0/16 | 0 | 0/16 | 0 | 10/16 | 63 |
| MP | 1/1 | 100 | 0/1 | 0 | 1/1 | 100 | 0/1 | 0 | 1/1 | 100 |
| Total | 54/128 | 41 | 45/123 | 37 | 22/122 | 18 | 23/122 | 19 | 22/124 | 18 |
| Cats | ||||||||||
| MP | 0/4 | 0 | 0/4 | 0 | 0/4 | 0 | 0/4 | 0 | 4/4 | 100 |
| Egg masses | ||||||||||
| KZN | 3/17 | 18 | 4/17 | 24 | 2/17 | 12 | 2/17 | 12 | 0/17 | 0 |
Represented as percentage of infection by target pathogen per tick pool in the different provinces.
KZN, KwaZulu-Natal; FS, Free State; NW, North West; MP, Mpumalanga.