AUTH O R S CO NTRI B UTI O N S
The study was designed by BCI. The sampling, laboratory work and
bioinformatics analyses and write-up were carried out by BCI, AN, while
BCI, LCO and AIO supervised the study and contributed to the
interpretation of the data, manuscript editing and approval of the final
manuscript.
Data Availability Statement: The data that support the findings
of this study are openly available in [GenBank] at https:
//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore, MK347206-MK347212 (tick
identification), MK405447-MK405477 (rickettsia omp A gene), and
MK405386-MK405446 (rickettsia omp B gene).