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.

2025
Title
Impact of community pharmacist antibiotic prescribing for minor ailments: an interrupted time series analysis
Increased Borrelia burgdorferi Seroprevalence in Nova Scotia-Prevalence and Distribution 10 Years Later
Increased Recognition of Human Anaplasmosis, Ontario, Canada, 2021
Lyme Carditis Presenting As Idiopathic Myocarditis: Prompt Empirical Treatment Despite Negative Serology
Lyme Neuroborreliosis Presenting with Isolated Intracranial Hypertension: A Case Report
Molecular-based laboratory testing confer accuracy over microscopical testing for tick identification
Of Lyme disease and machine learning in a One Health world
Permission to Bite: White-footed mice show no increased grooming response to tick infestation
Perspective: Incidence of Clinician-Diagnosed Lyme Disease in Manitoba, Canada 2009-2018
Polyvalent mRNA vaccine targeting outer surface protein C affords multi-strain protection against Lyme disease
Rapid Northward Expansion of the Blacklegged Tick, Ixodes scapularis, in Response to Climate Change
Reappraisal of the Dilution and Amplification Effect Framework: A Case Study in Lyme Disease
Recurrent Atrioventricular Block and Pacemaker Implant in a Properly Treated Lyme Carditis Patient
Registered Nurses' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Toward Climate-Sensitive Vector-Borne Diseases: Findings From a Cross-Sectional Survey
Rodent-targeted fluralaner baiting reduces the density of Borrelia burgdorferi-infected questing Ixodes scapularis ticks in a peri-urban setting in southern Canada
Sexual dimorphism of the Lyme disease bacterium in its tick vector - Abundance of Borrelia burgdorferi is higher in female than male Ixodes scapularis larvae
Spatial and temporal analyses of Dermacentor variabilis (Say) (Acari: Ixodidae) in central and eastern Canada
Transendothelial migration of the Lyme disease spirochete involves spirochete internalization as an intermediate step through a transcellular pathway that involves Cdc42 and Rac1
Understanding the perspectives, experiences, beliefs, and knowledge of health care practitioners on the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease in Canada
Validation of newly synthesized sex-determining PCR using immature Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) ticks
Various small mammal hosts are involved in the transmission cycle of zoonotic Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Southeastern Canada
2024
Title
A scoping review of applied tick control research in North America: funding, implementation, and advancement
Adaptive immunity in Mus musculus influences the acquisition and abundance of Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes scapularis ticks
Age- and Sex-Specific Differences in Lyme Disease Health-Related Behaviors, Ontario, Canada, 2015-2022
An update and review of arthropod vector sensory systems: Potential targets for behavioural manipulation by parasites and other disease agents

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