| novel rickettsia and emergent tick-borne pathogens: a molecular survey of ticks and tick-borne pathogens in shimba hills national reserve, kenya. | ticks are important vectors of emerging and re-emerging zoonoses, the majority of which originate from wildlife. in recent times, this has become a global public health concern that necessitates surveillance of both known and unknown tick-borne pathogens likely to be future disease threats, as well as their tick vectors. we carried out a survey of the diversity of ticks and tick-borne pathogens in kenya's shimba hills national reserve (shnr), an area with intensified human-livestock-wildlife int ... | 2017 | 28011185 |