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 31, 2025.

2024
Title
Age- and Sex-Specific Differences in Lyme Disease Health-Related Behaviors, Ontario, Canada, 2015-2022
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
2022
Title
American dog ticks along their expanding range edge in Ontario, Canada
Range Expansion of Ixodes scapularis and Borrelia burgdorferi in Ontario, Canada, from 2017 to 2019
Rurality, Socioeconomic Status, and Residence in Environmental Risk Areas Associated with Increased Lyme Disease Incidence in Ontario, Canada: A Case-Control Study
Surveillance for Lyme disease in Canada, 2009–2019
2021
Title
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)
2020
Title
Assessing human exposure to spotted fever and typhus group rickettsiae in Ontario, Canada (2013-2018): a retrospective, cross-sectional study
Sentinel surveillance of Lyme disease risk in Canada, 2019: Results from the first year of the Canadian Lyme Sentinel Network (CaLSeN)
2019
Title
Detection of municipalities at-risk of Lyme disease using passive surveillance of Ixodes scapularis as an early signal: A province-specific indicator in Canada.
Estimating direct healthcare costs attributable to laboratory‐confirmed Lyme disease in Ontario, Canada: A population‐based matched cohort study using health administrative data
Lyme Disease Emergence after Invasion of the Blacklegged Tick, Ixodes scapularis, Ontario, Canada, 2010-2016
Occurrence and distribution of Ambylomma americanum as determined by passive surveillance in Ontario, Canada (1999-2016).
Recent Emergence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Ontario, Canada: Early Serological and Entomological Indicators
Reply to Comment on “Distribution of Ixodes scapularis in Northwestern Ontario: Results from Active and Passive Surveillance Activities in the Northwestern Health Unit Catchment Area”
Vector-borne diseases: 2018 Summary Report (Public Health Ontario)
2018
Title
A field-based indicator for determining the likelihood of Ixodes scapularis establishment at sites in Ontario, Canada
Clinical manifestations of reported Lyme disease cases in Ontario, Canada: 2005-2014
Distribution of Ixodes scapularis in Northwestern Ontario: Results from Active and Passive Surveillance Activities in the Northwestern Health Unit Catchment Area
The continued rise of Lyme disease in Ontario, Canada: 2017
2017
Title
Surveillance for Lyme disease in Canada: 2009-2015
2016
Title
Human pathogens associated with the blacklegged tick Ixodes scapularis: a systematic review.
2014
Title
Population-Based Passive Tick Surveillance and Detection of Expanding Foci of Blacklegged Ticks Ixodes scapularis and the Lyme Disease Agent Borrelia burgdorferi in Ontario, Canada