Coxiella burnetii Detected in Tick Samples from Pastoral Communities in Kenya

Table 1

Tick species collected from livestock and the tick species positive for Coxiella burnetii.

Tick species	# ticks per animal host					Coxiella PCR positive pools
	Camel	Cattle	Goat	Sheep	Total	n
Amblyomma gemma	1	11	4	1	17	1	5.9
Amblyomma hebraeum	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0
Amblyomma lepidum	0	3	4	0	7	0	0.0
Amblyomma variegatum	0	1	2	0	3	0	0.0
Amblyomma spp	0	1	0	0	1	0	0.0
Rhipicephalus annulatus	0	0	0	1	1	0	0.0
Hyalomma marginatum	1	13	1	0	15	0	0.0
Hyalomma truncatum	7	14	4	4	29	0	0.0
Hyalomma spp	6	2	0	0	8	0	0.0
Rhipicephalus appendiculatus	0	4	17	8	29	2	6.9
Rhipicephalus pulchellus	15	79	79	28	201	8	4.0
Rhipicephalus evertsi evertsi	0	25	19	24	68	10	14.7
Total	30	153	131	66	380	21
Coxiella PCR positive pools (n)	0	7	7	7	21
Coxiella PCR positive pools (%)	0	4.6	5.3	10.6