Fig. 1
Sites where ticks were collected in southern Xinjiang, China. The nine surveyed counties are marked with green dots
Table 1
Molecular detection of Babesia spp., Theileria spp., and Anaplasma spp. in Ornithodoros lahorensis at specimen collection sites in nine counties and cities in southern Xinjiang, China
| Babesia spp. | Theileria spp. | Anaplasma spp. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWaTi | Environment | 8 | 7/1 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 |
| Sheep | 35 | 18/17 | 0/0 | T. ovis 1/2.9 % 95% CI: −2.9–8.7 | 0/0 | |
| ATuShi | Cattle | 17 | 5/12 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 |
| BaChu | Sheep | 31 | 11/20 | 0/0 | T. annulate 1/3.2 % 95% CI: −3.4–9.8 | 0/0 |
| KuChe | Sheep | 26 | 14/12 | 0/0 | T. ovis 1/3.8 % 95% CI: −4.1–11.8 | 0/0 |
| MoYu | Sheep | 22 | 14/8 | 0/0 | T. ovis 1/4.5 % 95% CI: −4.9–14.0 | 0/0 |
| WuShi | Sheep | 43 | 18/25 | 0/0 | T. annulate 1/2.3 % 95% CI: −2.4–7.0 | 0/0 |
| XinHe | Dog | 23 | 7/16 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 |
| YeCheng | Cattle | 16 | 5/11 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 |
| ZePu | Environment | 18 | 11/7 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 |
| Sheep | 91 | 36/55 | Babesia sp. 3/3.3% 95% CI: −0.4–7.0 | T. ovis 2/2.2% 95% CI: −0.9–5.3 | A. ovis 5/5.5% 95% CI: 0.7–10.3 | |
| Total | 330 | 146/184 | 3/0.9% 95% CI: −0.1–1.9 | 7/2.1% 95% CI: 0.6–3.7 | 5/1.5% 95% CI: 0.2–2.8 |
Fig. 2
Phylogenetic analysis of Theileria annulata, T. ovis and Babesia sp. based on two concatenated fragments of 18S rRNA partial gene sequences detected in Ornithodoros lahorensis from southern Xinjiang, China. The tree was constructed with maximum likelihood phylogenetic analysis with 500 bootstrap replicates using MEGA 10 software. Sequences of the T. annulata, T. ovis and Babesia sp. identified in this study are shown as (■), (▲) and (●), respectively
Fig. 3
Phylogenetic tree of Anaplasma ovis based on the 16S rRNA partial gene sequences detected in Ornithodoros lahorensis from southern Xinjiang, China. The tree was constructed with maximum likelihood phylogenetic analysis with 500 bootstrap replicates using MEGA 10 software. Sequences of the A. ovis identified in this study are shown as (■)