Map of Côte d’Ivoire showing the regions, cities and villages where the ticks were collected for our study.

<p>Map of Côte d’Ivoire showing the regions, cities and villages where the ticks were collected for our study.</p

23S rRNA based phylogenetic analysis of strains identified in this study.

<p>Phylogenetic tree highlighting the position of <i>Anaplasma</i> sp, <i>Ehrlichia</i> sp and <i>Wolbachia</i> sp identified in the present study relative to <i>Anaplama</i>, <i>Ehrlichia</i> and <i>Wolbachia</i> type and uncultured strains. The 23S rRNA sequences were aligned using MEGA 6 and phylogenetic inferences were obtained from a Bayesian phylogenetic analysis with the HKY standard model.</p

<i>flaB</i> gene-based phylogenetic analysis of the strains identified in this study.

<p>Phylogenetic tree highlighting the position of <i>Borrelia</i> sp. identified in the present study relative to <i>borrelia</i> type strains and uncultured borreliae. The <i>flaB</i> sequences were aligned using CLUSTALW, and phylogenetic inferences were obtained from a Bayesian phylogenetic analysis with the HKY+Γ; JC+ Γ and HKY+ Γ substitution models for the first, second and third codons respectively. The GenBank accession numbers are indicated at the end. Sequences obtained in the present study are in bold. The numbers at the nodes are the bootstrap values obtained by repeating the analysis 100 times to generate a majority consensus tree. There were a total of 300 positions in the final dataset. The scale bar indicates a 10% nucleotide sequence divergence.</p

Map of Africa showing the countries described in the current study.

<p>Map of Africa showing the countries described in the current study.</p

Snapshot of dendrogram of PFGE (<i>Not</i>I digestion) patterns for <i>V</i>. <i>cholerae</i> O1 isolates.

<p>Snapshot of dendrogram of PFGE (<i>Not</i>I digestion) patterns for <i>V</i>. <i>cholerae</i> O1 isolates.</p

Summary of phenotypic data for <i>V</i>. <i>cholerae</i> O1 isolates.

<p>* Isolates were determined to be resistant to antimicrobial agents at the following MIC breakpoints: ampicillin (Amp), ≥16 μg/ml; ceftriaxone (Cro), ≥2 μg/ml; ≥16 μg/ml; cotrimoxazole (Cot), ≥4 μg/ml; chloramphenicol (Chl), ≥16 μg/ml; nalidixic acid (Nal), ≥32 μg/ml; ciprofloxacin (Cip), ≥2 μg/ml; tetracycline (Tet), ≥8 μg/ml; erythromycin (Ery), ≥4 μg/ml; nitrofurantoin (Nit), ≥64 μg/ml.</p><p>Summary of phenotypic data for <i>V</i>. <i>cholerae</i> O1 isolates.</p