Canadian Tick-borne Research 2010-Present

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Last updated: March 30, 2024

Found 631 results
2023
Mac S, Evans G, Pullenayegum EM, Patel SN, and Sander B, “Healthcare costs and outcomes associated with laboratory-confirmed Lyme disease in Ontario, Canada: A population-based cohort study”, PLoS One, vol. 18, no. 6, 2023.
Crandall KE, Millien V, and Kerr JT, “Historical associations and spatiotemporal changes of pathogen presence in ticks in Canada: A systematic review”, Zoonoses Public Health, 2023.
Burde J, Bloch EM, and Krause PJ, “Human Borrelia miyamotoi Infection in North America”, Pathogens, vol. 12, 2023.
Kelly J and Koch O, “Human granulocytic anaplasmosis in a Scottish traveller returning from Canada”, Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, vol. 56, 2023.
Ciotti S, Moore S, and Tardif -Williams, ““I Can Do Anything if I’ve Overcome That”: A Collaborative Case Study of an Adolescent with Symptoms of Lyme Disease in Canada”, Adolescents, vol. 3, no. 3, 2023.
Ciotti S, “"I Get It, I'm Sick Too": An Autoethnographic Study of One Researcher/Practitioner/Patient With Chronic Illness”, Qual Health Res., 2023.
Laison EKE, Ibrahim MH, Boligarla S, Li J, Mahadevan R, Ng A, Muthuramalingam V, Lee WY, Yin Y, and Nasri BR, “Identifying Potential Lyme Disease Cases Using Self-Reported Worldwide Tweets: Deep Learning Modeling Approach Enhanced With Sentimental Words Through Emojis”, J Med Internet Res., vol. 25, 2023.
DeWinter S, Bauman C, Peregrine A, Weese JS, and Clow KM, “Infestation patterns of Ixodes scapularis and Dermacentor variabilis on dogs and cats across Canada”, PLoS One, vol. 18, 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.
Kivlichan AE and Reich H, “The Introduction of Tick-Resistant Gardening Practices Whilst Protecting the Environment”, One Health Innovation, no. 1, 2023.
Nichol GK, Weese JS, and Clow KM, “Isolation and multilocus sequence typing of Borrelia burgdorferi from Ixodes scapularis collected from dogs in Ontario, Canada”, BMC Res Notes, vol. 16, no. 1, 2023.
Millien V, Leo SST, Turney S, and Gonzalez A, “It's about time: small mammal communities and Lyme disease emergence”, Sci Rep, vol. 13, no. 1, 2023.
Bloch EM, Busch MP, Corash LM, Dodd R, Hailu B, Kleinman S, O'Brien SF, L, P., Stramer SL, and Katz LM, “Leveraging Donor Populations to Study the Epidemiology and Pathogenesis of Transfusion-Transmitted and Emerging Infectious Diseases”, Transfus Med Rev., 2023.
Tardy O, Acheson ES, Bouchard C, Chamberland E, Fortin A, Ogden NH, and Leighton PA, “Mechanistic movement models to predict geographic range expansions of ticks and tick-borne pathogens: Case studies with Ixodes scapularis and Amblyomma americanum in eastern North America”, Ticks Tick Borne Dis, vol. 14, no. 4, 2023.
Mandwal A, Bishop SL, Castellanos M, Westlund A, Chaconas G, Lewis I, and Davidsen J, “Metabolic Interactive Nodular Network for Omics (MINNO): Refining and investigating metabolic networks based on empirical metabolomics data”, bioRxiv, 2023.
Scott JD, McKeown JTA, and Scott CM, “Migratory Songbirds Transport Amblyomma longirostre and Amblyomma maculatum Ticks to Canada”, Journal of Biomedical Research & Environmental Sciences, vol. 4, no. 2, 2023.
Paulson A, Loughheed S, Huang D, and Colautti RI, “Multiomics Reveals Symbionts, Pathogens, and Tissue-Specific Microbiome of Blacklegged Ticks (Ixodes scapularis) from a Lyme Disease Hot Spot in Southeastern Ontario, Canada”, Microbiology Spectrum, 2023.
Vandenberg SY, Chircop A, Sedgwick M, and Scott D, “Nurses' perceptions of climate sensitive vector-borne diseases: A scoping review”, Public Health Nurs., 2023.
Courville J, Czuzoj-Shulman N, Spence AR, and Abenhaim HA, “Obstetrical and neonatal outcomes in women with gestational Lyme disease”, J Obs Gyn Can, vol. 45, no. 5, 2023.
Yunik ME, Diyes CP, and Chilton NB, “Off-host survival of Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae) adults near their northern distributional limit in Saskatchewan, Canada”, J Med Entomol, 2023.
Mechai S, Coatsworth H, and Ogden NH, “Possible effect of mutations on serological detection of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto ospC major groups: An in-silico study”, PLoS One, vol. 18, no. 10, 2023.
Arimin C, Chanda A, Kumar S, and Thomas GR, “A Practical Ambulatory Approach to Atrioventricular Block Secondary to Lyme Carditis”, Case Reports, vol. 14, no. 3, 2023.
Valois P, Bouchard C, Talbot D, Tessier M, Pelletier R, Osorio-Rodriguez B, and Bouchard D, “Preventing Lyme disease through identification of key beliefs”, PLOS Climate, vol. 2, no. 11, 2023.
Scott JD and Scott CM, “ Primary Detection of the Establishment of Blacklegged Ticks, Ixodes scapularis, in British Columbia, Canada”, J Biomed Res Environ Sci, vol. 4, no. 5, 2023.
Sanderson VP, Miller JC, Bamm VV, M, T., Lloyd VK, Singh-Ranger G, and Wills MKB, “Profiling disease burden and Borrelia seroprevalence in Canadians with complex and chronic illness”, PLoS One, vol. 18, no. 11, 2023.

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Tick being held by tweezers Amblyomma americanum Tick in a vial Tick on blade of grass Tick displayed on finger Dermacentor andersoni