Volume 10, Number 12—December 2004
Research
Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, Mauritania
Pierre Nabeth*
, Dah Ould Cheikh†, Baidy Lo‡, Ousmane Faye*, Idoumou Ould Mohamed Vall†, Mbayame Niang*, Bocar Wague†, Djibril Diop‡, Mawlouth Diallo*, Boubacar Diallo§, Ousmane Madiagne Diop*, and François Simon*
, Dah Ould Cheikh†, Baidy Lo‡, Ousmane Faye*, Idoumou Ould Mohamed Vall†, Mbayame Niang*, Bocar Wague†, Djibril Diop‡, Mawlouth Diallo*, Boubacar Diallo§, Ousmane Madiagne Diop*, and François Simon*
Table 4
Distribution of ticks collected during the investigation of the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever outbreak, Nouakchott, Mauritania, March 2003
| Tick species/host | No. ticks |
Positive pools/total pools tested | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | Market | |||
| Hyalomma dromedarii | ||||
| Cattle | 0 | 49 | 0/30 | |
| Camels | 0 | 39 | 0/21 | |
| Floor | 0 | 54 | 0/54 | |
| Total | 0 | 142 | 0/105 | |
| H. marginatum rufipes | ||||
| Cattle | 0 | 8 | 0/2 | |
| Camels | 0 | 3 | 0/1 | |
| Sheep | 6 | 9 | 0/10 | |
| Total | 6 | 20 | 0/13 | |
| H. impeltatum | ||||
| Cattle | 0 | 11 | 0/6 | |
| Sheep | 8 | 8 | 0/7 | |
| Floor | 0 | 3 | 0/3 | |
| Total | 8 | 22 | 0/16 | |
| Hyalomma sp. | ||||
| Sheep | 1 | 0 | 0/1 | |
| Rhipicephalus evertsi evertsi | ||||
| Sheep | 97 | 75 | 4/56 | |
| Goats | 2 | 0 | 0/1 | |
| Total | 99 | 75 | 4/57 | |
| R. sanguineus | ||||
| Dogs | 5 | 0 | 0/2 | |
| Total | 119 | 259 | 4/194 | |
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