Prevalence of Ticks Infesting Dairy Cattle and the Pathogens They Harbour in Smallholder Farms in Peri-Urban Areas of Nairobi, Kenya

Table 3

Ehrlichia species DNA detected from different tick species collected from cattle in peri-urban areas of Nairobi, Kenya.

Isolate	Accession no. (this study)	Tick species	Accession no. of highest BLASTn match	Ehrlichia spp. DNA detected	% identity
396B	MT734401	Rh. (boophilus) decoloratus	KY594915.1	E. canis	100.0
508B	MT734402	A. variegatum	KX987326.1	E. canis	99.76
524A	MT734403	A. variegatum	KX180945.1	E. canis	100.0
524AR	MT738235	A. variegatum	NR_074155.1	E. ruminantium	100.0
277C	MT738242	Rh. sanguineous	KX987325.1	Unidentified Ehrlichia spp.	100.0