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: January 30, 2026.

2015
Title
Lyme disease: How reliable are serologic results?
Lyme disease: Knowledge and practices of family practitioners in southern Quebec
Lyme law: targeting best practices
Major emerging vector-borne zoonotic diseases of public health importance in Canada
Mechanical properties of the cuticle of the tick Amblyomma hebraeum (Acari: Ixodidae).
Methods to Prevent Tick Bites and Lyme Disease.
Passive surveillance for ticks on horses in Saskatchewan
Phylogeographic Structure of the White-Footed Mouse and the Deer Mouse, Two Lyme Disease Reservoir Hosts in Québec
Prevalence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Babesia microti in Ixodes scapularis from a Newly Established Lyme Disease Endemic Area, the Thousand Islands Region of Ontario, Canada
Sequence variability in the mitochondrial 12S rRNA and tRNA(Val) genes of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) individuals shown previously to be genetically invariant.
Seroprevalence of equine granulocytic anaplasmosis and lyme borreliosis in Canada as determined by a point-of-care enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).
Surveillance for Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes Ticks and Small Rodents in British Columbia
The increasing risk of Lyme disease in Canada
Tick bites in the Lyme light
2014
Title
Bill C-442: Shining the Limelight on the Lyme-Like?
Borrelia kurtenbachii sp. nov., a widely distributed member of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species complex in North America
Climate change and habitat fragmentation drive the occurrence of Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease, at the northeastern limit of its distribution.
Climate change and infectious diseases in the Arctic: establishment of a circumpolar working group.
Comparison of the DNA sequences and secondary structure of the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene of Ixodes kingi, Ixodes sculptus and Ixodes angustus
Construction and characterization of a Borrelia burgdorferi strain with conditional expression of the essential telomere resolvase, ResT.
Estimated Effects of Projected Climate Change on the Basic Reproductive Number of the Lyme Disease Vector Ixodes scapularis
From Lyme disease emergence to endemicity: a cross sectional comparative study of risk perceptions in different populations.
Genetic variation in the mitochondrial 16S ribosomal RNA gene of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae).
Geography, deer, and host biodiversity shape the pattern of Lyme disease emergence in the Thousand Islands archipelago of Ontario, Canada
Invariant natural killer T cells act as an extravascular cytotoxic barrier for joint-invading Lyme Borrelia.

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