In order to improve sample screening capacity of Ehrlichia ruminantium in ticks, an automatic DNA extraction method for Amblyomma ticks and a new QPCR targeting E. ruminantium pCS20 region, pCS20 Sol1 QPCR, were developed. A comparison between the new pCS20 Sol1 QPCR, a previously published pCS20 CowTM QPCR and the gold standard nested pCS20 PCR have been carried out. pCS20 Sol1TM QPCR was highly sensitive (up to 2.4 copies per sample) and specific (16 E. ruminantium strains detected and no cross-reaction with close-related species). We showed that Sol1 QPCR and pCS20 nested PCR had similar sensitivity and specificity however there was limited risk of contamination and timeless process for pCS20 Sol1 QPCR. In parallel, a tick 16SSyb rRNA QPCR was successfully developed for DNA quality control. DNA yield and quality from ticks extracted automatically, using 16SSyb rRNA QPCR were high. 16SSyb rRNA QPCR results (n=671 ticks) showed also a good reproducibility of automatic DNA extraction with a mean Ct=23+/-3. The whole method of screening, including automatic DNA extraction and pCS20 Sol1 QPCR, demonstrated a limit of detection between 6 and 0.6 copies per sample. It was also reproducible with restricted standard deviation of Ct (+/-1.3) for samples at the limit of detection. The development of a new automatic DNA extraction and QPCR allows for improving tick sample processing and E. ruminantium diagnostic capacities using high throughput methods. More widely, the automatic DNA extraction based on DNA/RNA virus kit and the new DNA quality control method, 16SSyb rRNA QPCR, can then be used for screening other bacterium and virus and for other tick species. (Texte intégral)