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: December 15, 2025.

2025
Title
Babesia nucleic acid prevalence among blood donors in southern Québec
2024
Title
Quality over quantity in active tick surveillance: Sentinel surveillance outperforms risk-based surveillance for tracking tick-borne disease emergence in southern Canada
2023
Title
Current and future burden from Lyme disease in Québec as a result of climate change
Integrated human behavior and tick risk maps to prioritize Lyme disease interventions using a 'One Health' approach
Self-reported tick exposure as an indicator of Lyme disease risk in an endemic region of Quebec, Canada
2022
Title
An ecological approach to predict areas with established populations of Ixodes scapularis in Quebec, Canada
Behavioral risk factors associated with reported tick exposure in a Lyme disease high incidence region in Canada
Criteria for selecting sentinel unit locations in a surveillance system for vector-borne disease: A decision tool
Management and clinical outcomes of Lyme disease in acute care facilities in 2 endemic regions of Quebec, Canada: a multicentre retrospective cohort study
Sentinel Surveillance Contributes to Tracking Lyme Disease Spatiotemporal Risk Trends in Southern Quebec, Canada
2019
Title
Clinical presentation of reported Lyme disease cases among children from Quebec (Canada) between 2009-2017
2018
Title
Evidence for increasing densities and geographic ranges of tick species of public health significance other than Ixodes scapularis in Québec, Canada
Integrated Social-Behavioral and Ecological Risk Maps to Prioritize Local Public Health Responses to Lyme Disease.
Passive Tick Surveillance Provides an Accurate Early Signal of Emerging Lyme Disease Risk and Human Cases in Southern Canada
2017
Title
Practices of Lyme disease diagnosis and treatment by general practitioners in Quebec, 2008-2015
2016
Title
Acceptability of tick control interventions to prevent Lyme disease in Switzerland and Canada: a mixed-method study
2015
Title
Adaptation and Evaluation of a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Model for Lyme Disease Prevention
Factors associated with preventive behaviors regarding Lyme disease in Canada and Switzerland: a comparative study.
Lyme disease: Knowledge and practices of family practitioners in southern Quebec
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.
From Lyme disease emergence to endemicity: a cross sectional comparative study of risk perceptions in different populations.
2013
Title
Harvested white-tailed deer as sentinel hosts for early establishing Ixodes scapularis populations and risk from vector-borne zoonoses in Southeastern Canada.
2012
Title
Passive Surveillance for I. scapularis ticks: enhanced analysis for early detection of emerging Lyme disease risk
2011
Title
Associations between Ixodes scapularis ticks and small mammal hosts in a newly endemic zone in southeastern Canada: Implications for Borrelia burgdorferi transmission.
Indigenous Lyme Disease in Quebec.

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