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

Phylogenetic tree highlighting the position of <i>Borrelia recurrentis</i> identified in the present study relative to <i>Borrelia</i> type strains and uncultured borreliae.

<p>The 16S rRNA gene sequences were aligned using CLUSTALW, and phylogenetic inferences were obtained from a maximum likelihood (ML) phylogenetic analysis with the TrN+Γ substitution model. The GenBank accession numbers are indicated at the beginning. Sequence obtained in the present study is 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 1,269 positions in the final dataset. The scale bar indicates a 5% nucleotide sequence divergence.</p