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: November 4, 2025.

2025
Title
A systematic review of the effectiveness and utility of Lyme disease prevention measures in Canada, the United States, and Europe
Current and future ecological niche of Dermacentor similis Lado (Acari: Ixodidae) in western North America
Current and future ecological niche of Dermacentor similis Lado (Acari: Ixodidae) in western North America
Increased Recognition of Human Anaplasmosis, Ontario, Canada, 2021
2024
Title
Ixodes scapularis density and Borrelia burgdorferi prevalence along a residential-woodland gradient in a region of emerging Lyme disease risk
Knowledge, protective behaviours, and perception of Lyme disease in an area of emerging risk: results from a cross-sectional survey of adults in Ottawa, Ontario
Study protocol for a scoping review of Lyme disease prediction methodologies
The distribution of Babesia odocoilei in Ixodes species ticks in Canada: Implications for one health surveillance
2023
Title
Risk factors for Lyme disease resulting from residential exposure amidst emerging Ixodes scapularis populations: A neighbourhood-level analysis of Ottawa, Ontario
2022
Title
Rurality, Socioeconomic Status, and Residence in Environmental Risk Areas Associated with Increased Lyme Disease Incidence in Ontario, Canada: A Case-Control Study
Spatiotemporal trends and socioecological factors associated with Lyme disease in eastern Ontario, Canada from 2010-2017
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
A multi-year assessment of blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) population establishment and Lyme disease risk areas in Ottawa, Canada, 2017-2019
Convergence Research for Emerging Zoonoses
2020
Title
Genetic Melting Pot in Blacklegged Ticks at the Northern Edge of Their Expansion Front
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
Landscape determinants of density of blacklegged ticks, vectors of Lyme disease, at the northern edge of their distribution in Canada.
Lyme Disease Emergence after Invasion of the Blacklegged Tick, Ixodes scapularis, Ontario, Canada, 2010-2016
Woodchip borders at the forest ecotone as an environmental control measure to reduce questing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada
2018
Title
High-Resolution Ecological Niche Modeling of Ixodes scapularis Ticks Based on Passive Surveillance Data at the Northern Frontier of Lyme Disease Emergence in North America
Ixodes scapularis tick distribution and infection rates in Ottawa, Ontario, 2017
2015
Title
Major emerging vector-borne zoonotic diseases of public health importance in Canada
2013
Title
Epidemiology and aetiology of encephalitis in Canada, 1994-2008: a case for undiagnosed arboviral agents?