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 25, 2026.

2025
Title
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
Animal models of Lyme carditis. Understanding how to study a complex disease
Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato prevalence in Ixodes scapularis from Canada: a thirty-year summary and meta-analysis (1990-2020)
Changes in the Transcriptome and Long Non-Coding RNAs but Not the Methylome Occur in Human Cells Exposed to Borrelia burgdorferi
Characterization and genomic analysis of the Lyme disease spirochete bacteriophage ϕBB-1
Collaborative Modeling of the Tick-Borne Disease Social-Ecological System: A Conceptual Framework
Comparison of the supercooling points of questing Dermacentor variabilis adults in two populations on the Canadian prairies and implications for overwinter survival
Constructing an ELISA for Detection of Anti-Borrelia in Wildlife and Agricultural Animals
Dermacentor species (Acari: Ixodidae) in western Canada, with detection of Dermacentor similis

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