If you are aware of any Canadian research into ticks or tick-borne illnesses that should be included below, please send me an email and include the details. Please note that while summaries of the journal articles listed below are fairly universally accessible by the public, full text access often requires a fee and/or account.

Last updated: January 30, 2025.

2025
Title
Environmental sampling for Dermacentor species (Acari: Ixodidae) in southern British Columbia, Canada in May, 2022
Genome sequences of four Ixodes species expands understanding of tick evolution
Perspective: Incidence of Clinician-Diagnosed Lyme Disease in Manitoba, Canada 2009-2018
Spatial and temporal analyses of Dermacentor variabilis (Say) (Acari: Ixodidae) in central and eastern Canada
2024
Title
A scoping review of applied tick control research in North America: funding, implementation, and advancement
Adaptive immunity in Mus musculus influences the acquisition and abundance of Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes scapularis ticks
Age- and Sex-Specific Differences in Lyme Disease Health-Related Behaviors, Ontario, Canada, 2015-2022
An update and review of arthropod vector sensory systems: Potential targets for behavioural manipulation by parasites and other disease agents
Animal models of Lyme carditis. Understanding how to study a complex disease
Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato prevalence in Ixodes scapularis from Canada: a thirty-year summary and meta-analysis (1990-2020)
Changes in the Transcriptome and Long Non-Coding RNAs but Not the Methylome Occur in Human Cells Exposed to Borrelia burgdorferi
Characterization and genomic analysis of the Lyme disease spirochete bacteriophage ϕBB-1
Collaborative Modeling of the Tick-Borne Disease Social-Ecological System: A Conceptual Framework
Comparison of the supercooling points of questing Dermacentor variabilis adults in two populations on the Canadian prairies and implications for overwinter survival
Constructing an ELISA for Detection of Anti-Borrelia in Wildlife and Agricultural Animals
Dermacentor species (Acari: Ixodidae) in western Canada, with detection of Dermacentor similis
Development, Optimization, and Validation of a Quantitative PCR Assay for Borrelia burgdorferi Detection in Tick, Wildlife, and Human Samples
Disease and Mortality in Free-Ranging Leporids in Canada, 1990-2019: A Retrospective Study
Draft whole-genome sequences of three Borrelia burgdorferi isolates from Western Canada
Effect of snow cover on the off-host survival of Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae) larvae
Estimating the Incidence and Economic Cost of Lyme Disease Cases in Canada in the 21st Century with Projected Climate Change
Exploring the impact of Anaplasma phagocytophilum on colonization resistance of Ixodes scapularis microbiota using network node manipulation
Geographic range and minimum infection rate of Borrelia burgdorferi, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Babesia microti, and Borrelia miyamotoi in Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) ticks in Manitoba, Canada from 1995 to 2017
Harmful and Harmless Soil-Dwelling Fungi Indicate Microhabitat Suitability for Off-Host Ixodid Ticks
High-resolution environmental and host-related factors impacting questing Ixodes scapularis at their northern range edge

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