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: May 7, 2025.

2024
Title
High-resolution environmental and host-related factors impacting questing Ixodes scapularis at their northern range edge
Outdoor worker knowledge of ticks and Lyme disease in Québec
Pathogen presence, prevalence, and diversity in Ixodes scapularis and mammal hosts at their expanding northern range limits
2023
Title
Historical associations and spatiotemporal changes of pathogen presence in ticks in Canada: A systematic review
It's about time: small mammal communities and Lyme disease emergence
Risky business: human-related data is lacking from Lyme disease risk models
2022
Title
Emerging Tick-Borne Pathogens in Central Canada: Recent Detections of Babesia odocoilei and Rickettsia rickettsii
2017
Title
Liver microbiome of Peromyscus leucopus, a key reservoir host species for emerging infectious diseases in North America
2015
Title
Phylogeographic Structure of the White-Footed Mouse and the Deer Mouse, Two Lyme Disease Reservoir Hosts in Québec
2014
Title
Climate change and habitat fragmentation drive the occurrence of Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease, at the northeastern limit of its distribution.
2013
Title
Genetic structure of the white-footed mouse in the context of the emergence of Lyme disease in southern Québec.
Investigation of the population structure of the tick vector of Lyme disease Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) in Canada using mitochondrial cytochrome C oxidase subunit I gene sequences
Poleward Expansion of the White-Footed Mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) under Climate Change: Implications for the Spread of Lyme Disease