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: December 15, 2025.

2018
Title
Lyme disease presenting with multiple cranial neuropathies on MRI
Lyme Disease Presenting With Raeder Syndrome
Lyme Disease Propelled by Borrelia burgdorferi-Infected Blacklegged Ticks, Wild Birds and Public Awareness - Not Climate Change
Motivations and Experiences of Canadians Seeking Treatment for Lyme Disease Outside of the Conventional Canadian Health-Care System.
Multi-Scale Clustering of Lyme Disease Risk at the Expanding Leading Edge of the Range of Ixodes scapularis in Canada
Passive Tick Surveillance Provides an Accurate Early Signal of Emerging Lyme Disease Risk and Human Cases in Southern Canada
Persistent Borrelia Infection in Patients with Ongoing Symptoms of Lyme Disease
Powassan virus - an emerging public health concern.
Powassan Virus and Other Arthropod-Borne Viruses in Wildlife and Ticks in Ontario, Canada.
Powassan virus, a scoping review of the global evidence
Prevalence of Anaplasma bovis in Canadian populations of the Rocky Mountain wood tick, Dermacentor andersoni.
Risk factors associated with seropositivity to California serogroup viruses in humans and pet dogs, Quebec, Canada.
Risk factors associated with the carriage of Ixodes scapularis relative to other tick species in a population of pet dogs from southeastern Ontario, Canada
Serological survey of canine vector-borne diseases in Saskatchewan, Canada
Suspicious index in Lyme carditis: Construction of a new risk model in the absence of guidelines
Suspicious index in Lyme carditis: Systematic review and proposed new risk score
Systematic Approach to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Lyme Carditis and High-Degree Atrioventricular Block
The continued rise of Lyme disease in Ontario, Canada: 2017
Three genetically distinct clades of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Ixodes scapularis
Under-Detection of Lyme Disease in Canada
Whole genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of strains of the agent of Lyme disease Borrelia burgdorferi from Canadian emergence zones.
2017
Title
A Retrospective Cohort Study of Tick Paralysis in British Columbia
A Risk Model for the Lyme Disease Vector Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) in the Prairie Provinces of Canada
A systematic review and meta-analysis for the adverse effects, immunogenicity and efficacy of Lyme disease vaccines: Guiding novel vaccine development
Analyzing the Potential Risk of Climate Change on Lyme Disease in Eastern Ontario, Canada Using Time Series Remotely Sensed Temperature Data and Tick Population Modelling

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