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
Spatial and temporal analyses of Dermacentor variabilis (Say) (Acari: Ixodidae) in central and eastern Canada
2024
Title
Dermacentor species (Acari: Ixodidae) in western Canada, with detection of Dermacentor similis
Multiple species of canine Rhipicephalus complex detected in Canada
The distribution of Babesia odocoilei in Ixodes species ticks in Canada: Implications for one health surveillance
2023
Title
Comparing Canadian Lyme disease risk area classification methodologies
Epidemiology and clinical manifestations of reported Lyme disease cases: Data from the Canadian Lyme disease enhanced surveillance system
Infestation patterns of Ixodes scapularis and Dermacentor variabilis on dogs and cats across Canada
Isolation and multilocus sequence typing of Borrelia burgdorferi from Ixodes scapularis collected from dogs in Ontario, Canada
2022
Title
Assessing the spatial and temporal patterns and risk factors for acquisition of Ixodes spp. by companion animals across Canada
Range Expansion of Ixodes scapularis and Borrelia burgdorferi in Ontario, Canada, from 2017 to 2019
Spatial patterns of Borrelia burgdorferi, Borrelia miyamotoi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum detected in Ixodes spp. ticks from Canadian companion animals, 2019-2020
The utility of a maximum entropy species distribution model for Ixodes scapularis in predicting the public health risk of Lyme disease in Ontario, Canada
2021
Title
Assessing knowledge, attitudes, and practices of Canadian veterinarians with regard to Lyme disease in dogs
Evaluation of 2 ELISAs to determine Borrelia burgdorferi seropositivity in horses over a 12-month period
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)
Seroprevalence and evaluation of risk factors associated with seropositivity for Borrelia burgdorferi in Ontario horses
2020
Title
Recent reports of winter tick, Dermacentor albipictus, from dogs and cats in North America
Sentinel surveillance of Lyme disease risk in Canada, 2019: Results from the first year of the Canadian Lyme Sentinel Network (CaLSeN)
Species distribution models for the eastern blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, and the Lyme disease pathogen, Borrelia burgdorferi, in Ontario, Canada
2019
Title
A framework for adaptive surveillance of emerging tick-borne zoonoses
Occurrence and distribution of Ambylomma americanum as determined by passive surveillance in Ontario, Canada (1999-2016).
2018
Title
A field-based indicator for determining the likelihood of Ixodes scapularis establishment at sites in Ontario, Canada
Assessing the Repeatability of Tick Dragging as a Method for Ixodes scapularis Surveillance
2017
Title
Microbiota of field-collected Ixodes scapularis and Dermacentor variabilis from eastern and southern Ontario, Canada

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