A study of ticks and tick-borne livestock pathogens in Pakistan.
Shahid KarimKhemraj BudachetriNabanita MukherjeeJaclyn WilliamsAsma KausarMuhammad Jawadul HassanSteven AdamsonScot E DowdDmitry ApanskevichAbdullah ArijoZia Uddin SindhuMuhammad Azam KakarRaja Muhammad Dilpazir KhanShafiq UllahMuhammad Sohail SajidAbid AliZafar IqbalPublished in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases (2017)
This study provides information about tick diversity in Pakistan, and pathogenic bacteria in different tick species. Our results showed evidence for Candidatus R. amblyommii infection in Rhipicephalus microplus, H. anatolicum, and H. dromedarii ticks, which also carried T. annulata.