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They are important vectors of viral, bacterial, or parasitic diseases in livestock and humans. Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus and the spotted fever rickettsiae are some of the tick-borne diseases of public health importance reported in Kenya. Their distribution and public health risks among communities, especially pastoralists, remain poorly characterized due to limited surveillance, affected partly by inadequate capacity for tick identification arising from a limited number of skilled taxonomists.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Materials and Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The aim of this survey was to identify tick species currently circulating in different livestock hosts in northern Kenya. 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There was no disparity in the morphological and molecular identification of Amblyomma species. However, molecular analysis provided insight into the complexity of morphological identification especially among Hyalomma and Rhipicephalus species. High haplotype diversities (0.857-1.000) and low nucleotide diversities (0.00719-0.06319) were observed in all the tick samples tested.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The findings highlight the diversity of tick species in dry pastoral ecologies in Kenya and the importance of confirming morphological identification by molecular analysis thus contributing to accurate mapping of tick-borne disease distribution and risk.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1089\/vbz.2024.0034","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,10,31]],"date-time":"2024-10-31T04:54:49Z","timestamp":1730350489000},"page":"107-117","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Combining Morphological and Molecular Tools Can Enhance Tick Species Identification for Improved Tick-Borne Disease Surveillance Among Pastoral Communities in Kenya"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"25","author":[{"given":"Hellen","family":"Koka","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Virus Research, Nairobi, Kenya."},{"name":"Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Solomon","family":"Langat","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Virus Research, Nairobi, Kenya."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Francis","family":"Mulwa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Virus Research, Nairobi, Kenya."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"James","family":"Mutisya","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Virus Research, Nairobi, Kenya."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Samuel","family":"Owaka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Virus Research, Nairobi, Kenya."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Millicent","family":"Sifuna","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Juliette R.","family":"Ongus","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Joel","family":"Lutomiah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Virus Research, Nairobi, Kenya."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Rosemary","family":"Sang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,2,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_6_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0199357"},{"key":"e_1_3_6_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3389\/fvets.2021.698395"},{"key":"e_1_3_6_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/jme\/tjab064"},{"key":"e_1_3_6_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1089\/vbz.2011.0859"},{"key":"e_1_3_6_6_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2741\/3200"},{"key":"e_1_3_6_7_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/s0304-4017(01)00468-x"},{"key":"e_1_3_6_8_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.20506\/rst.34.1.2345"},{"key":"e_1_3_6_9_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.vetpar.2007.11.014"},{"issue":"5","key":"e_1_3_6_10_1","first-page":"294","article-title":"DNA primers for amplification of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I from diverse metazoan invertebrates","volume":"3","author":"Folmer O","year":"1994","unstructured":"Folmer O, , Black M, , Hoeh W, et al. 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