Table 4. Frequency of tick detection on 1,229 dogs and 1,152 cats and molecular identification of ticks, in study of ectoparasites and vectorborne zoonotic pathogens of dogs and cats, Asia, 2017–2018.

Ectoparasite	Location			Relative frequency of occurrence, % (95% CI)		GenBank accession nos.
	Dogs	Cats		Dogs	Cats
Tick
Rhipicephalus sanguineus	All countries	Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, Taiwan, China		96.6 (93.6–98.2)	95 (83.5–98.6)	MN685287–321, MT320104–5
R. haemaphysaloides		Taiwan		0.8 (0.2–2.7)		MN653239–40
Haemaphysalis hystricis	Thailand			0.4 (0–2.1)		MN658833
H. wellingtoni	Thailand, Indonesia			0.8 (0.2–2.7)		MN658820–1
H. campanulata	China			0.4 (0–2.1)		MN658817
H. longicornis	China	China		0.8 (0.2–2.7)	2.5% (0.4–12.9)	MN658797–800
Ixodes sp.		Taiwan			2.5 (0.4–12.9)	MT035959
Fleas
Ctenocephalides felis	All	All		65.1 (57.7–71.8)	98.7 (95.5–99.6)	MT027205–8, MT027227, MT027230
C. canis	Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, China	Philippines		15.7 (22.0–21.9)	0.6 (0.1–3.5)	Not applicable
C. orientis	Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, Taiwan			19.2 (14.0–25.7)		MT027193–99
Xenopsylla cheopis		Indonesia			0.6 (0.1–3.5)	MT027228
Lice
Heterodoxus spiniger	Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Taiwan, China			72.8 (63.5–80.5)		MT027225
Trichodectes canis	Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia			25.2 (17.8–34.4)		MT027226
Felicola subrostratus	Indonesia	Philippines, Indonesia, China		1.9 (0.5–6.8)	1.8 (0.3–9.3)	Not applicable
Linognathus setosus		Malaysia				Not applicable
Mites
Lynxacarus radovskyi		Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia		Not applicable	Not applicable	MN639734, MN639736