Table 1.

Primers used for pathogen screening of collected ticks

Pathogen	Primer	Direction	Amplicon (bp)	Targeted gene	Sequence
Rickettsia spp.	107F	Forward	209–212	Rickettsia ompA region	5′-GCT TTA TTC ACC ACC TCA AC-3′
	299R	Reverse			5′-TRA TCA CCA CCG TAA GTA AAT-3′
Ehrlichia spp.	DSB-321	Forward	378	Ehrlichia dsb gene	5′-TTG CAA AAT GAT GTC TGA AGA TAT GAA ACA-3′
	DSB-671	Reverse			5′-GCT GCT CCA CCA ATA AAT GTA TCY CCT A-3′