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Background    Anaplasma  and  Ehrlichia  are emerging tick-borne pathogens that cause anaplasmosis and ehrlichiosis in humans and other animals worldwide. Infections caused by these pathogens are deadly if left untreated. There has been relatively no systematic survey of these pathogens among ticks in South Africa, thus necessitating this study. The presence of  Anaplasma  and  Ehrlichia  species were demonstrated by PCR in ticks collected from domestic ruminants at some selected communities in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The ticks were identified by morphological characteristics and thereafter processed to extract bacterial DNA, which was analyzed for the presence of genetic materials of  Anaplasma  and  Ehrlichia .    Results  Three genera of ticks comprising five species were identified. The screening yielded 16 positive genetic materials that were phylogenetically related to  Ehrlichia  sequences obtained from GenBank, while no positive result was obtained for  Anaplasma . The obtained  Ehrlichia  sequences were closely related to  E. chaffeensis, E. canis ,  E. muris  and the incompletely described  Ehrlichia  sp. UFMG-EV and  Ehrlichia  sp. UFMT.    Conclusion  The findings showed that ticks in the studied areas were infected with  Ehrlichia  spp. and that the possibility of transmission to humans who might be tick infested is high.

Genetic profiling for Anaplasma and Ehrlichia species in ticks collected in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa