Table A6.
Co-occurrence matrix of the microorganisms detected in R. microplus samples collected in Martinique (n = 275 samples). (*) Positive associations detected when performing a co-occurrence test using the co-occur function (α = 0.05) and R version 3.6.0 (2019-04-26).
| A. marginale | Borrelia spp. | Leishmania spp. | T. mutans | T. velifera | B. bigemina | B. bovis | Anaplasma spp.1 | Ehrlichia spp.2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. marginale | 111 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 34 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 70* |
| Borrelia spp. | 12 | 0 | 2* | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | |
| Leishmania spp. | 2 | 1* | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| T. mutans | 4 | 4* | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| T. velifera | 72 | 15* | 1 | 5 | 32 | ||||
| B. bigemina | 35 | 0 | 1 | 14 | |||||
| B. bovis | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||
| Anaplasma spp.1 | 22 | 9 | |||||||
| Ehrlichia spp.2 | 134 |
1 Sample positive for Anaplasma spp. and not for A. marginale. 2 Sample positive for Ehrlichia spp. and not for E. ruminantium.