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 4, 2025.

2019
Title
Resistance of tick microbiome to biological disturbance
Risk assessment strategies for early detection and prediction of infectious disease outbreaks associated with climate change.
Sex-Specific Linkages Between Taxonomic and Functional Profiles of Tick Gut Microbiomes
Surveillance for Lyme disease in Canada: 2009-2015
Susceptibility to infection with Borrelia afzelii and TLR2 polymorphism in a wild reservoir host
The economic burden of Lyme disease and the cost-effectiveness of Lyme disease interventions: A scoping review
Tick infestations of wildlife and companion animals in Ontario, Canada, with detection of human pathogens in Ixodes scapularis ticks.
Toxoplasmosis, but not borreliosis, is associated with psychiatric disorders and symptoms - false negative findings?
Transdisciplinary and social-ecological health frameworks-Novel approaches to emerging parasitic and vector-borne diseases
Treating Lyme Carditis High-Degree AV Block Using a Temporary-Permanent Pacemaker
Unraveling the host's immune response to infection: Seeing is believing
Updates to the Canadian Notifiable Disease Surveillance System and its interactive website
Using Earth observation images to inform risk assessment and mapping of climate change-related infectious diseases.
Vector-borne diseases: 2018 Summary Report (Public Health Ontario)
What is the real number of Lyme disease cases in Canada?
What is your diagnosis? A feline blood smear
Woodchip borders at the forest ecotone as an environmental control measure to reduce questing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada
Zoonotic Babesia: A scoping review of the global evidence
2018
Title
A Borrelia burgdorferi mini-vls system that undergoes antigenic switching in mice: investigation of the role of plasmid topology and the long inverted repeat
A case of Powassan encephalitis acquired in southern Quebec
A comparison of the cuticular properties of the female ticks Ixodes pacificus and Amblyomma hebraeum (Acari: Ixodidae) throughout the feeding period
A field-based indicator for determining the likelihood of Ixodes scapularis establishment at sites in Ontario, Canada
A scoping review of Lyme disease research relevant to public health
A systematic review on the impact of gestational Lyme disease in humans on the fetus and newborn
Advancing knowledge and increasing capacity to address climate-driven infectious diseases in Canada

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