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AUTHORS’ CONTRIBUTIONS
Abbas H. K. Sray, Ghassan J. K. Al-Abedi, Thuraya Khaled Abdulwahed, Israa M. Essa, Zeid Alsadoon, and Hasanain A. J. Gharban · about 1 minutes
AHKS: Conceived and designed the study, coordinated field investigations, collected tick samples, and participated in data acquisition. GJKA: Collected blood samples and contributed to field sampling and specimen handling. TKA: Performed molecular laboratory analyses of blood samples. IME: Conducted molecular laboratory analyses of tick samples. ZA: Prepared the initial manuscript draft and contributed to data interpretation. HAJG: Performed statistical analyses, conducted sequence submission to GenBank, carried out phylogenetic and bioinformatics analyses of cattle and tick isolates, supervised the study, and critically revised the manuscript. All authors read, reviewed, and approved the final version of the manuscript.