Table 2.
Association between infection rate of detected pathogens in ticks collected from different hosts and sampling sites using χ2 test
| Pooled positive, n (%) | Pooled positive, n (%) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total pooled n (%) | Coxiella burnetii | χ2 | df | P-value | Rickettsia spp. | χ2 | df | P-value | |
| Mammalian host | 35.61 | 3 | < 0.001 | 141.63 | 3 | < 0.001 | |||
| Cattle | 763 | 152 (19.9) | 414 (54.3) | ||||||
| Dogs | 141 | 0 (0.0) | 1 (25.0) | ||||||
| Sheep | 4 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | ||||||
| Goats | 4 | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.7) | ||||||
| Study site | 9.35 | 1 | 0.002 | 7.89 | 1 | 0.005 | |||
| Coastal savanna | 168 | 66 (39.3) | 44 (26.2) | ||||||
| 5 BN | 103 | 10 (9.7) | 64 (62.1) | ||||||
| ART | 89 | 1 (1.1) | 35 (39.3) | ||||||
| 1 BN | |||||||||
| Guinea and Sudan savanna | |||||||||
| 6 BN | 99 | 50 (50.5) | 79 (79.8) | ||||||
| AF | 127 | 23 (18.1) | 83 (65.4) | ||||||
| Navrongo | 174 | 0 (0.0) | 5 (2.9) | ||||||
| ABF | 152 | 2 (1.3) | 106 (69.7) | ||||||