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Volume 30, Supplement—October 2024
SUPPLEMENT ISSUE
Articles

Metagenomic Nanopore Sequencing of Tickborne Pathogens, Mongolia

Koray Ergunay1Comments to Author , Bazartseren Boldbaatar1, Brian P. Bourke, Laura Caicedo-Quiroga, Cynthia L. Tucker, Andrew G. Letizia, Nora G. Cleary, Abigail G. Lilak, Guugandaa Nyamdavaa, Sharav Tumenjargal, Michael E. von Fricken2, and Yvonne-Marie Linton2
Author affiliation: Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Smithsonian Institution Museum Support Center, Suitland, Maryland, USA (K. Ergunay, B.P. Bourke, L. Caicedo-Quiroga, C.L. Tucker, Y-M. Linton); Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA (K. Ergunay, B.P. Bourke, L. Caicedo-Quiroga, C.L. Tucker, Y-M. Linton); Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA (K. Ergunay, B.P. Bourke, L. Caicedo-Quiroga, C.L. Tucker, Y-M. Linton); Mongolian University of Life Sciences School of Veterinary Medicine, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (B. Boldbaatar, G. Nyamdavaa, S. Tumenjargal); Naval Medical Research Unit INDO PACIFIC, Sembawang, Singapore (A.G. Letizia); University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions, Gainesville, Florida, USA (N.G. Cleary, A.G. Lilak, M.E. von Fricken)

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Table 1

Prevalence of microbial pathogens in b52 in a metagenomic nanopore sequencing study of tickborne pathogens, Mongolia*

Pathogens Dermacentor nuttalli ticks
 Hyalomma asiaticum ticks
 Ixodes persulcatus ticks
 Total no. (%)
Single, 
n = 2 Pooled, n = 15 Single, 
n = 11 Pooled, n = 15 Single, 
n = 10 Pooled, n = 15
Bacteria
Anaplasma ovis 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 (1.4)
Coxiella burnetii 2 0 6 6 7 0 21 (30.0)
Coxiella spp. endosymbiont 0 7 0 0 0 0 7 (10.2)
Borrelia miyamatoi 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 (1.4)
B. turcica 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 (1.4)
Francisella tularensis subsp. holarctica 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 (1.4)
F. tularensis subsp. novicida 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 (1.4)
F. persica and F. opportunistica 0 0 10 12 0 0 22 (32.3)
Rickettsia spp. spotted fever group 1 15 3 2 10 15 46 (67.6)
Rickettsia spp. endosymbiont 0 7 1 0 8 15 31 (45.5)
Spiroplasma ixodetis
 0
 0
0
 0
0
 5
 5 (7.3)
Viruses
Alongshan virus 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 (2.9)
Beiji nairovirus 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 (5.8)
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus
 0
 0
2
 0
0
 0
 2 (2.9)
Parasites
Babesia microti 0 0 2 0 1 1 4 (5.8)
Theileria equi 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 (4.4)

*Tick-associated opportunistic or endosymbiotic bacteria closely related to pathogenic species are provided for comparison.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

2These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

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