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.

2023
Title
Evaluation of a community-based One Health intervention to reduce the risk of Lyme disease in a high-incidence municipality
Female ticks (Ixodes scapularis) infected with Borrelia burgdorferi have increased overwintering survival, with implications for tick population growth
Healthcare costs and outcomes associated with laboratory-confirmed Lyme disease in Ontario, Canada: A population-based cohort study
Historical associations and spatiotemporal changes of pathogen presence in ticks in Canada: A systematic review
Human Borrelia miyamotoi Infection in North America
Human granulocytic anaplasmosis in a Scottish traveller returning from Canada
I Can Do Anything if I’ve Overcome That: A Collaborative Case Study of an Adolescent with Symptoms of Lyme Disease in Canada
Identifying Potential Lyme Disease Cases Using Self-Reported Worldwide Tweets: Deep Learning Modeling Approach Enhanced With Sentimental Words Through Emojis
Infestation patterns of Ixodes scapularis and Dermacentor variabilis on dogs and cats across Canada
Integrated human behavior and tick risk maps to prioritize Lyme disease interventions using a 'One Health' approach
Isolation and multilocus sequence typing of Borrelia burgdorferi from Ixodes scapularis collected from dogs in Ontario, Canada
It's about time: small mammal communities and Lyme disease emergence
Leveraging Donor Populations to Study the Epidemiology and Pathogenesis of Transfusion-Transmitted and Emerging Infectious Diseases
Metabolic Interactive Nodular Network for Omics (MINNO): Refining and investigating metabolic networks based on empirical metabolomics data
Migratory Songbirds Transport Amblyomma longirostre and Amblyomma maculatum Ticks to Canada
Multiomics Reveals Symbionts, Pathogens, and Tissue-Specific Microbiome of Blacklegged Ticks (Ixodes scapularis) from a Lyme Disease Hot Spot in Southeastern Ontario, Canada
Nurses' perceptions of climate sensitive vector-borne diseases: A scoping review
Obstetrical and neonatal outcomes in women with gestational Lyme disease
Off-host survival of Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae) adults near their northern distributional limit in Saskatchewan, Canada
Possible effect of mutations on serological detection of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto ospC major groups: An in-silico study
Preventing Lyme disease through identification of key beliefs
Primary Detection of the Establishment of Blacklegged Ticks, Ixodes scapularis, in British Columbia, Canada
Profiling disease burden and Borrelia seroprevalence in Canadians with complex and chronic illness
Protocol for a longitudinal cohort study of Lyme disease with physical, mental and immunological assessment
Risk factors for Lyme disease resulting from residential exposure amidst emerging Ixodes scapularis populations: A neighbourhood-level analysis of Ottawa, Ontario

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