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Rodents sampled from peri-urban and communal rangelands had higher proportions of <jats:italic>Bartonella<\/jats:italic> spp. [Hlalakahle (77.7%), Gottenburg (47.8%), Tlhavekisa (83.8%)] compared to those from the protected habitat (43.8%). <jats:italic>Ehrlichia<\/jats:italic> spp., <jats:italic>Anaplasma<\/jats:italic> spp., and <jats:italic>Coxiella burnetii<\/jats:italic> were detected at &amp;lt;1% of the sequence reads. Conventional PCR and sequencing validated the detection of <jats:italic>Bartonella<\/jats:italic> spp. with the first confirmation of <jats:italic>Bartonella mastomydis<\/jats:italic> infection in <jats:italic>Mastomys<\/jats:italic> in South Africa. Additionally, 317 mites, 90 fleas, 10 ticks and eight lice were collected from the rodents, providing evidence of possible vectors of the organisms detected. 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