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Volume 12, Number 7—July 2006
Research

Tickborne Arbovirus Surveillance in Market Livestock, Nairobi, Kenya

Rosemary Sang*, Clayton Onyango*, John Gachoya*, Ernest Mabinda*, Samson Konongoi*, Victor Ofula*, Lee Dunster*, Fred Okoth*, Rodney Coldren†, Robert B. Tesh‡, Amelia Travassos da Rosa‡, Stacy Finkbeiner§, David Wang§, Mary Crabtree¶Comments to Author , and Barry Miller¶
Author affiliations: *Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya; †United States Army Medical Research Unit, Nairobi, Kenya; ‡University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA; §Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; ¶Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

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Table 3

Virus isolates obtained from ticks collected in Nairobi, Kenya

Species Virus isolates
DUGV DUGV-like BHAV THOV DHOV KADV BARV-like FMDV Unknown Total
Amblyomma variegatum 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
A. gemma 16 5 0 4 0 0 0 0 1 26
A. lepidum 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4
A. coharens 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Boophilus decoloratus 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Hyalomma. truncatum 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
H. albiparmatum 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
H. rufipes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
H. dromedarii 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rhipicephalus appendiculatus 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2
R. evertsi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
R. pulchellus 2 1 0 1 1 0 6 3 3 17
Total 26 7 2 6 1 1 6 3 4 56

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