Canadian Tick-borne Illness Research 2010-Present

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Last updated: January 5, 2021

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2020
Hatke AL, Green DR, Stasiak K, and Marconi RT, “Antibody profiling of a Borreliella burgdorferi (Lyme disease) C6 antibody positive, symptomatic Rottweiler and her pups”, The Veterinary Journal, vol. 262, 2020.
Sperling JH, Fitzgerald D, Sperling FAH, and Magor KE, “Microbiome Composition and Borrelia Detection in Ixodes scapularis Ticks at the Northwestern Edge of Their Range”, Trop Med Infect Dis. , vol. 5, no. 4, 2020.
Sanderson VP, Mainprize IL, Verzijlenberg L, Khursigara CM, and Wills MKB, “The Platelet Fraction Is a Novel Reservoir to Detect Lyme Borrelia in Blood”, Biology (Basel) ., vol. 9, no. 11, 2020.
Guillot C, Badcock J, Clow KM, Cram J, Dergousoff SJ, Dibernardo A, Evason M, Fraser E, Galanis E, Gasmi S, German G, Howse DT, Jardine CM, Jenkins EJ, Koffi JK, Kulkarni MA, Lindsay LR, Lumsden G, McKay R, Moore K, Morshed MG, Munn D, Nelder MP, Nocera J, Ripoche M, Rochon K, Russell CB, Slatculescu AM, Talbot B, Thivierge K, Voordouw M, Bouchard C, and Leighton P, “Sentinel surveillance of Lyme disease risk in Canada, 2019: Results from the first year of the Canadian Lyme Sentinel Network (CaLSeN)”, Can Commun Dis Rep , vol. 46, no. 10, 2020.
Banerjee A, Baid K, Byron T, Yip A, Ryan C, Thampy PR, Broders H, Faure P, and Mossman K, “Seroprevalence in Bats and Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi in Bat Ectoparasites”, Microorganisms, vol. 8, no. 3, 2020.
2019
Chaconas G, Castellanos M, and Verhey TB, “Changing of the guard: How the Lyme disease spirochete subverts the host immune response”, J Biol Chem, 2019.
Munro HJ, Ogden NH, Mechai S, Lindsay LR, Robertson GJ, Whitney H, and Lang AS, “Genetic diversity of Borrelia garinii from Ixodes uriae collected in seabird colonies of the northwestern Atlantic Ocean”, Ticks Tick Borne Dis, vol. S1877-959X, no. 18, pp. 30513-2, 2019.
Bamm VV, Ko JT, Mainprize IL, Sanderson VP, and Wills MKB, “Lyme Disease Frontiers: Reconciling Borrelia Biology and Clinical Conundrums”, Pathogens, vol. 8, no. 4, 2019.
Chilton NB, Curry PS, Lindsay LR, Rochon K, Lysyk TJ, and Dergousoff SJ, “Passive and Active Surveillance for Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) in Saskatchewan, Canada”, J Med Entomol, 2019.
McKay R, Talbot B, Slatculescu AM, Stone A, and Kulkarni MA, “Woodchip borders at the forest ecotone as an environmental control measure to reduce questing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada”, Ticks and Tick-borne Illnesses, 2019.
2018
Verhey TB, Castellanos M, and Chaconas G, “Analysis of recombinational switching at the antigenic variation locus of the Lyme spirochete using a novel PacBio sequencing pipeline.”, Mol Microbiol., vol. 107, no. 1, 2018.
Verhey TB, Castellanos M, and Chaconas G, “Antigenic Variation in the Lyme Spirochete: Insights into Recombinational Switching with a Suggested Role for Error-Prone Repair.”, Cell Rep., vol. 23, no. 9, 2018.
Lieske DJ and Lloyd VK, “Combining public participatory surveillance and occupancy modelling to predict the distributional response of Ixodes scapularis to climate change”, ScienceDirect, vol. 9, no. 3, 2018.
Tyler S, Tyson S, Dibernardo A, Drebot MA, Feil EJ, Graham M, Knox NC, Lindsay LR, Margos G, Mechai S, Van Domselaar G, Thorpe HA, and Ogden NH, “Whole genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of strains of the agent of Lyme disease Borrelia burgdorferi from Canadian emergence zones.”, Sci Rep, vol. 8, no. 1, 2018.
2017
Scott JD, Foley JE, Anderson JF, Clark KL, and Durden LA, “Detection of Lyme Disease Bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, in Blacklegged Ticks Collected in the Grand River Valley, Ontario, Canada”, International Journal of Medical Sciences, vol. 14, no. 2, 2017.
Munro HJ, Ogden NH, Lindsay LR, Robertson GJ, Whitney H, and Lang AS, “Evidence for Borrelia bavariensis infections of Ixodes uriae within seabird colonies of the North Atlantic Ocean.”, Appl Environ Microbiol., vol. AEM.01087-17, 2017.
Kadkhoda K, Dumouchel C, Brancato J, Gretchen A, and Krause PJ, “Human seroprevalence of Borrelia miyamotoi in Manitoba, Canada, in 2011-2014: a cross-sectional study.”, CMAJ Open, vol. 5, no. 3, 2017.
Margos G, Marosevic D, Cutler S, Derdakova M, Diuk-Wasser M, Emler S, Fish D, Gray J, Hunfeldt KP, Jaulhac B, Kahl O, Kovalev S, Kraiczy P, Lane RS, Lienhard R, Lindgren PE, Ogden NH, Ornstein K, Rupprecht T, Schwartz I, Sing A, Straubinger RK, Strle F, Voordouw M, Rizzoli A, Stevenson B, and Fingerle V, “There is inadequate evidence to support the division of the genus Borrelia.”, Int J Syst Evol Microbiol., vol. 67, no. 4, 2017.
2016
Scott JD, Foley JE, Clark KL, Anderson JF, Durden LA, Manord JM, and Smith ML, “Established Population of Blacklegged Ticks with High Infection Prevalence for the Lyme Disease Bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato, on Corkscrew Island, Kenora District, Ontario”, Int. J. Med. Sci., vol. 13, no. 12, pp. 881-891, 2016.
Scott JD, Clark KL, Foley JE, Durden LA, Manord JM, and Smith ML, “First Record of Ixodes affinis Tick (Acari: Ixodidae) Infected with Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato Collected from a Migratory Songbird in Canada”, J Bacteriol Parasitol, vol. 7, 2016.

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