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We found 68 miRNAs expressed in all tested tick organs with 50 (6 novel), 50 (9 novel) and 49 (13 novel) expressed in gut, salivary glands and ovaries, respectively (Additional file 10B).

In both experiments, the large majority of the tested ticks showed individual-level left-biased questing acts, if compared to the ticks showing right-biased ones.

For these species, we tested ticks from hosts with >4 newly molted nymphs, but considered these data provisional given low sample sizes per individual host.

N = number of tested ticks; n = number of infected ticks Kurtenbach et al. [ 5] showed that sera from red deer were indiscriminating borrealicidal for the three human pathogenic strains.

To investigate the abundance of tickborne arboviruses in Kenya and the surrounding region, we collected and tested ticks infesting livestock driven to market at 2 major abattoirs in Nairobi, Kenya.

This type of surveillance is labor intensive; however, we did not routinely test ticks or rodents for B. microti infection.

Thus, testing ticks for B. divergens directly is both laborious and costly, and would require analysis of a very large number of ticks.

TBEV prevalence in ticks in these natural foci is very low [ 5- 7], and detection of a natural TBEV focus by collecting and testing ticks is very expensive and time-consuming [ 8].

To characterize the prevalence of this organism in questing Ixodes ticks, we tested 2,754 ticks for a variety of tickborne pathogens by PCR and electrospray-ionization mass spectrometry.

We tested amplifiable tick DNA by PCR of the tick mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene (2 ).

We tested 5 ticks by qPCR for the presence of Bartonella spp. and C. burnetii.