Canadian Tick-borne Research 2010-Present

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Last updated: May 1, 2024

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2024
Guillot C, Bouchard C, Buhler K, Pelletier R, Milord F, and Leighton PA, “Quality over quantity in active tick surveillance: Sentinel surveillance outperforms risk-based surveillance for tracking tick-borne disease emergence in southern Canada”, Can Commun Dis Rep, vol. 49, no. 2-3, 2024.
Dumas A, Bouchard C, Drapeau P, Lindsay LR, Ogden NH, and Leighton PA, “The risk of contact between visitors and Borrelia burgdorferi-infected ticks is associated with fine-scale landscape features in a southeastern Canadian nature park”, BMC Public Health, vol. 24, no. 1, 2024.
Guillot C, Aenishaenslin C, Acheson ES, Koffi JK, Bouchard C, and Leighton PA, “Spatial multi-criteria decision analysis for the selection of sentinel regions in tick-borne disease surveillance”, BMC Public Health, vol. 24, no. 1, 2024.
2023
Pelletier J, Guillot C, Rocheleau JP, Bouchard C, Baron G, Bedard C, Dibernardo A, Lindsay LR, Leighton PA, and Aenishaenslin C, “The added value of One Health surveillance: data from questing ticks can provide an early signal for anaplasmosis outbreaks in animals and humans”, Can J Public Health, vol. 114, no. 2, 2023.
Potes L, Bouchard C, Rocheleau JP, Richard L, Leighton PA, Pelletier J, Baron G, and Aenishaenslin C, “Evaluation of a community-based One Health intervention to reduce the risk of Lyme disease in a high-incidence municipality”, CABI One Health, vol. 2, no. 1, 2023.
Bouchard C, Dumas A, Baron G, Bowser N, Leighton PA, Lindsay LR, Milord F, Ogden NH, and Aenishaenslin C, “Integrated human behavior and tick risk maps to prioritize Lyme disease interventions using a 'One Health' approach”, Ticks Tick Borne Dis, vol. 14, no. 2, 2023.
Tardy O, Acheson ES, Bouchard C, Chamberland E, Fortin A, Ogden NH, and Leighton PA, “Mechanistic movement models to predict geographic range expansions of ticks and tick-borne pathogens: Case studies with Ixodes scapularis and Amblyomma americanum in eastern North America”, Ticks Tick Borne Dis, vol. 14, no. 4, 2023.
2022
Pelletier J, Guillot C, Rocheleau JP, Bouchard C, Baron G, Bedard C, Dibernardo A, Lindsay LR, Leighton PA, and Aenishaenslin C, “The added value of One Health surveillance: data from questing ticks can provide an early signal for anaplasmosis outbreaks in animals and humans”, Can J Public Health, 2022.
Tardy O, Vincenot CE, Bouchard C, Ogden NH, and Leighton PA, “Context-dependent host dispersal and habitat fragmentation determine heterogeneity in infected tick burdens: an agent-based modelling study”, R Soc Open Sci, vol. 9, no. 3, 2022.
Guillot C, Bouchard C, Aenishaenslin C, P, B., Milord F, and Leighton PA, “Criteria for selecting sentinel unit locations in a surveillance system for vector-borne disease: A decision tool”, Front Public Health, vol. 10, 2022.
Hammond-Collins K, Tremblay M, Milord F, Baron G, Bouchard C, Kotchi SO, Lambert L, Leighton PA, Ogden NH, and Rees EE, “An ecological approach to predict areas with established populations of Ixodes scapularis in Quebec, Canada”, Ticks Tick Borne Dis, vol. 13, no. 6, 2022.
Pelletier J, Rocheleau JP, Aenishaenslin C, GD, M., Lindsay LR, Ogden NH, Bouchard C, and Leighton PA, “Fluralaner Baits Reduce the Infestation of Peromyscus spp. Mice (Rodentia: Cricetidae) by Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) Larvae and Nymphs in a Natural Environment”, J Med Entomol, 2022.
Guillot C, Bouchard C, Buhler K, Dumas A, Milord F, Ripoche M, Pelletier R, and Leighton PA, “Sentinel Surveillance Contributes to Tracking Lyme Disease Spatiotemporal Risk Trends in Southern Quebec, Canada”, Pathogens, vol. 11, no. 5, 2022.
Dumas A, Bouchard C, Dibernardo A, Drapeau P, Lindsay LR, Ogden NH, and Leighton PA, “Transmission patterns of tick-borne pathogens among birds and rodents in a forested park in southeastern Canada”, PLoS One, vol. 17, no. 4, 2022.
Burrows H, Slatculescu AM, Feng CX, Clow KM, Guillot C, Jardine CM, Leighton PA, Krause PJ, and Kulkarni MA, “The utility of a maximum entropy species distribution model for Ixodes scapularis in predicting the public health risk of Lyme disease in Ontario, Canada”, Ticks Tick Borne Dis, vol. 13, no. 5, 2022.
2021
Dumas A, Bouchard C, Lindsay LR, Ogden NH, and Leighton PA, “Fine-scale determinants of the spatiotemporal distribution of Ixodes scapularis in Quebec (Canada)”, Ticks Tick Borne Dis, vol. 13, no. 1, 2021.
Tardy O, Bouchard C, Chamberland E, Fortin A, Lamirande P, Ogden NH, and Leighton PA, “Mechanistic movement models reveal ecological drivers of tick-borne pathogen spread”, J R Soc Interface, vol. 18, no. 181, 2021.
Tutt-Guerette MA, Yuan M, Szaroz D, McKinnon B, Kestens Y, Guillot C, Leighton PA, and Zinszer K, “Modelling Spatiotemporal Patterns of Lyme Disease Emergence in Québec”, Int J Environ Res Public Health ., vol. 18, no. 18, 2021.
2020
Pelletier J, Rocheleau JP, Aenishaenslin C, Beaudry F, Dimitri Masson G, Lindsay LR, Ogden NH, Bouchard C, and Leighton PA, “Evaluation of fluralaner as an oral acaricide to reduce tick infestation in a wild rodent reservoir of Lyme disease”, Parasites & Vectors , vol. 13, no. 1, 2020.
Talbot B, Leighton PA, and Kulkarni MA, “Genetic Melting Pot in Blacklegged Ticks at the Northern Edge of Their Expansion Front ”, J Hered., vol. Jul 1, 2020.
2019
Gasmi S, Ogden NH, Ripoche M, Leighton PA, Lindsay LR, Nelder MP, Rees E, Bouchard C, Vrbova L, Rusk R, Russel C, Pelcat Y, Mechai S, Kotchi SO, and Koffi JK, “Detection of municipalities at-risk of Lyme disease using passive surveillance of Ixodes scapularis as an early signal: A province-specific indicator in Canada.”, PLoS One, vol. 14, no. 2, 2019.
Clow KM, Leighton PA, Pearl DL, and Jardine CM, “A framework for adaptive surveillance of emerging tick-borne zoonoses.”, One Health, vol. 7, 2019.
Bouchard C, Dibernardo A, Lindsay LR, Wood H, and Leighton PA, “Increased risk of tick-borne diseases with climate and environmental changes”, Canada Communicable Disease Report, vol. 45, pp. 83-89, 2019.
Talbot B, Slatculescu AM, Thickstun C, Koffi JK, Leighton PA, McKay R, and Kulkarni MA, “Landscape determinants of density of blacklegged ticks, vectors of Lyme disease, at the northern edge of their distribution in Canada.”, Sci Rep, vol. 9, no. 1, 2019.
Ogden NH, Bouchard C, Badcock J, Drebot MA, Elias SP, Hatchette TF, Koffi JK, Leighton PA, Lindsay LR, Lubelczyk CB, Peregrine AS, Smith RP, and Webster D, “What is the real number of Lyme disease cases in Canada?”, BMC Public Health, vol. 19, no. 1, p. 849, 2019.

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