Canadian Tick-borne Research 2010-Present

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Last updated: May 1, 2024

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2024
Dumas A, Bouchard C, Drapeau P, Lindsay LR, Ogden NH, and Leighton PA, “The risk of contact between visitors and Borrelia burgdorferi-infected ticks is associated with fine-scale landscape features in a southeastern Canadian nature park”, BMC Public Health, vol. 24, no. 1, 2024.
2023
Pelletier J, Guillot C, Rocheleau JP, Bouchard C, Baron G, Bedard C, Dibernardo A, Lindsay LR, Leighton PA, and Aenishaenslin C, “The added value of One Health surveillance: data from questing ticks can provide an early signal for anaplasmosis outbreaks in animals and humans”, Can J Public Health, vol. 114, no. 2, 2023.
Bouchard C, Dumas A, Baron G, Bowser N, Leighton PA, Lindsay LR, Milord F, Ogden NH, and Aenishaenslin C, “Integrated human behavior and tick risk maps to prioritize Lyme disease interventions using a 'One Health' approach”, Ticks Tick Borne Dis, vol. 14, no. 2, 2023.
Boodman C, Loomer C, Dibernardo A, Hatchette TF, LeBlanc J, Waitt B, and Lindsay LR, “Using Serum Specimens for Real-Time PCR-Based Diagnosis of Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis, Canada”, Emerg Infect Dis, vol. 29, no. 1, 2023.
2022
Pelletier J, Guillot C, Rocheleau JP, Bouchard C, Baron G, Bedard C, Dibernardo A, Lindsay LR, Leighton PA, and Aenishaenslin C, “The added value of One Health surveillance: data from questing ticks can provide an early signal for anaplasmosis outbreaks in animals and humans”, Can J Public Health, 2022.
Kanji JN, Isaac A, Gregson D, Mierzejewski M, Shpeley D, Tomlin P, Groechel M, Lindsay LR, Lachance L, and Kowalewska-Grochowska K, “Epidemiology of ticks submitted from human hosts in Alberta, Canada (2000-2019)”, Emerg Microbes Infect, pp. 1-25, 2022.
Pelletier J, Rocheleau JP, Aenishaenslin C, GD, M., Lindsay LR, Ogden NH, Bouchard C, and Leighton PA, “Fluralaner Baits Reduce the Infestation of Peromyscus spp. Mice (Rodentia: Cricetidae) by Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) Larvae and Nymphs in a Natural Environment”, J Med Entomol, 2022.
Allehebi ZO, Khan FM, Robbins M, Simms E, Xiang R, Shawwa A, Lindsay LR, Dibernardo A, d 'Entremont, Crowell A, LeBlanc J, and Haldane D, “Lyme Disease, Anaplasmosis, and Babesiosis, Atlantic Canada”, Emerging Infectious Diseases, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 1292-1294, 2022.
Khan FM, Allehebi ZO, Shabi Y, Davis IRC, LeBlanc J, Lindsay LR, and Hatchette TF, “Modified Two-Tiered Testing Enzyme Immunoassay Algorithm for Serologic Diagnosis of Lyme Disease”, Open Forum Infect Dis, vol. 9, no. 7, 2022.
Robinson EL, Jardine CM, Koffi JK, Russell C, Lindsay LR, Dibernardo A, and Clow KM, “Range Expansion of Ixodes scapularis and Borrelia burgdorferi in Ontario, Canada, from 2017 to 2019”, Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis., 2022.
Dumas A, Bouchard C, Dibernardo A, Drapeau P, Lindsay LR, Ogden NH, and Leighton PA, “Transmission patterns of tick-borne pathogens among birds and rodents in a forested park in southeastern Canada”, PLoS One, vol. 17, no. 4, 2022.
2021
Lumsden G, Zakharov EV, Dolynskyj S, Weese JS, Lindsay LR, and Jardine CM, “The application of next-generation sequence-based DNA barcoding for bloodmeal detection in host-seeking wild-caught Ixodes scapularis nymphs”, BMC Res Notes, vol. 14, no. 1, p. 67, 2021.
Drews SJ, Caeseele PV, Bullard JM, Lindsay LR, Gaziano T, Zeller MP, Lane D, Momar N, Allen VG, Boggild AK, O'Brien SF, Marko D, Musuka C, Almiski M, and Bigham M, “Babesia microti in a Canadian blood donor and lookback in a red blood cell recipient”, Vox Sang ., 2021.
Duplaix L, Wagner V, Gasmi S, Lindsay LR, Dibernardo A, Thivierge K, Fernandez-Prada C, and Arsenault J, “Exposure to Tick-Borne Pathogens in Cats and Dogs Infested With Ixodes scapularis in Quebec: An 8-Year Surveillance Study”, Front Vet Sci., vol. eCollection 2021, 2021.
Dumas A, Bouchard C, Lindsay LR, Ogden NH, and Leighton PA, “Fine-scale determinants of the spatiotemporal distribution of Ixodes scapularis in Quebec (Canada)”, Ticks Tick Borne Dis, vol. 13, no. 1, 2021.
Nelder MP, Russell CB, Dibernardo A, Clow KM, Johnson S, Cronin K, Patel SN, and Lindsay LR, “Monitoring the patterns of submission and presence of tick-borne pathogens in Ixodes scapularis collected from humans and companion animals in Ontario, Canada (2011-2017)”, Parasit Vectors., vol. 14, no. 1, 2021.
Burrows H, Talbot B, McKay R, Slatculescu AM, Logan JJ, Thickstun C, Lindsay LR, Dibernardo A, Koffi JK, Ogden NH, and Kulkarni MA, “A multi-year assessment of blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) population establishment and Lyme disease risk areas in Ottawa, Canada, 2017-2019”, PLoS One, vol. 16, no. 2, 2021.
O’Brien SF, Drews SJ, Yi QL, Bloch EM, Ogden NH, Koffi JK, Lindsay LR, Gregoire Y, and Delage G, “Risk of transfusion-transmitted Babesia microti in Canada”, Transfusion, 2021.
Lumsden G, Zakharov EV, Dolynskyj S, Weese JS, Lindsay LR, and Jardine CM, “Temporal Detection Limits of Remnant Larval Bloodmeals in Nymphal Ixodes scapularis (Say, Ixodida: Ixodidae) Using Two Next-Generation Sequencing DNA Barcoding Assays”, J Med Entomol., vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 821-829, 2021.
2020
Stokes W, Lisboa L, Lindsay LR, and Fonseca K, “Case Report: Anaplasmosis in Canada: Locally Acquired Anaplasma phagocytophilum Infection in Alberta ”, Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2020.
Pelletier J, Rocheleau JP, Aenishaenslin C, Beaudry F, Dimitri Masson G, Lindsay LR, Ogden NH, Bouchard C, and Leighton PA, “Evaluation of fluralaner as an oral acaricide to reduce tick infestation in a wild rodent reservoir of Lyme disease”, Parasites & Vectors , vol. 13, no. 1, 2020.
MacLean G, Cook P, Lindsay LR, Hatchette TF, and Webster D, “Low Seroprevalence of Lyme disease among multiple sclerosis patients in New Brunswick”, Can J Neurol Sci, vol. 2020 June 29, pp. 1-11, 2020.
Hatchette TF and Lindsay LR, “Modified two-tiered testing algorithm for Lyme disease serology: The Canadian context”, Can Commun Dis Rep , vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 125-131, 2020.
Thompson AT, Dominguez K, Cleveland CA, Dergousoff SJ, Doi K, Falco RC, Greay T, Irwin P, Lindsay LR, Liu J, Mather TN, Oskam CL, Rodriguez_Viva RI, Ruder MG, Shaw D, Vigil SL, White S, and Yabsley MJ, “Molecular Characterization of Haemaphysalis Species and a Molecular Genetic Key for the Identification of Haemaphysalis of North America”, Front Vet Sci., vol. 7, 2020.
Davis IRC, McNeil SA, Allen W, MacKinnon-Cameron D, Lindsay LR, Bernat K, Dibernardo A, LeBlanc J, and Hatchette TF, “Performance of a Modified Two-Tiered Testing (MTTT) EIA Algorithm for Serologic Diagnosis of Lyme Disease in Nova Scotia”, J Clin Microbiol, vol. JCM.01841-19, 2020.

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