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: March 25, 2026.

2021
Title
The Impact of Tick-Borne Diseases on the Bone
2020
Title
Live Imaging
2017
Title
Diet-Induced Obesity Does Not Alter Tigecycline Treatment Efficacy in Murine Lyme Disease
Identification of Tp0751 (Pallilysin) as a Treponema pallidum Vascular Adhesin by Heterologous Expression in the Lyme disease Spirochete.
Plasma fibronectin stabilizes Borrelia burgdorferi-endothelial interactions under vascular shear stress by a catch-bond mechanism
2016
Title
Biomechanics of Borrelia burgdorferi Vascular Interactions
Flow-Tolerant Adhesion of a Bacterial Pathogen to Human Endothelial Cells Through Interaction With Biglycan
Hyperglycemia Impairs Neutrophil-Mediated Bacterial Clearance in Mice Infected with the Lyme Disease Pathogen
2015
Title
Evolutionary aspects of emerging Lyme disease in Canada
2014
Title
Invariant natural killer T cells act as an extravascular cytotoxic barrier for joint-invading Lyme Borrelia.