Bryson Brian Kimemia, Lillian Musila, Solomon Langat, Erick Odoyo, Stephanie Cinkovich, David Abuom, Santos Yalwala, Samoel Khamadi, Jaree Johnson, Eric Garges, Elly Ojwang, Fredrick Eyase
Ticks are arachnid ectoparasites that rank second only to mosquitoes in the transmission of human diseases including bacteria responsible for anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis, spotted fevers, and Lyme disease among other febrile illnesses. Due to the paucity of data on bacteria transmitted by ticks in Kenya, this study undertook a bacterial metagenomic-based characterization of ticks collected from Isiolo, a semi-arid pastoralist County in Eastern Kenya, and Kwale, a coastal County with a monsoon climate in the southern Kenyan border with Tanzania...
2024: PloS One