Canadian Tick-borne Illness Research 2010-Present
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Last updated: January 5, 2021
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“Antibody profiling of a Borreliella burgdorferi (Lyme disease) C6 antibody positive, symptomatic Rottweiler and her pups”, The Veterinary Journal, vol. 262, 2020.
, “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.
, “The Platelet Fraction Is a Novel Reservoir to Detect Lyme Borrelia in Blood”, Biology (Basel) ., vol. 9, no. 11, 2020.
, “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.
, “Seroprevalence in Bats and Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi in Bat Ectoparasites”, Microorganisms, vol. 8, no. 3, 2020.
, “Changing of the guard: How the Lyme disease spirochete subverts the host immune response”, J Biol Chem, 2019.
, “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.
, “Lyme Disease Frontiers: Reconciling Borrelia Biology and Clinical Conundrums”, Pathogens, vol. 8, no. 4, 2019.
, “Passive and Active Surveillance for Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) in Saskatchewan, Canada”, J Med Entomol, 2019.
, “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.
, “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.
, “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.
, “Combining public participatory surveillance and occupancy modelling to predict the distributional response of Ixodes scapularis to climate change”, ScienceDirect, vol. 9, no. 3, 2018.
, , “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.
, “Evidence for Borrelia bavariensis infections of Ixodes uriae within seabird colonies of the North Atlantic Ocean.”, Appl Environ Microbiol., vol. AEM.01087-17, 2017.
, “Human seroprevalence of Borrelia miyamotoi in Manitoba, Canada, in 2011-2014: a cross-sectional study.”, CMAJ Open, vol. 5, no. 3, 2017.
, “There is inadequate evidence to support the division of the genus Borrelia.”, Int J Syst Evol Microbiol., vol. 67, no. 4, 2017.
, “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.
, “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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