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: October 6, 2026.

2019
Title
What is your diagnosis? A feline blood smear
Woodchip borders at the forest ecotone as an environmental control measure to reduce questing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada
Zoonotic Babesia: A scoping review of the global evidence
2018
Title
A Borrelia burgdorferi mini-vls system that undergoes antigenic switching in mice: investigation of the role of plasmid topology and the long inverted repeat
A case of Powassan encephalitis acquired in southern Quebec
A comparison of the cuticular properties of the female ticks Ixodes pacificus and Amblyomma hebraeum (Acari: Ixodidae) throughout the feeding period
A field-based indicator for determining the likelihood of Ixodes scapularis establishment at sites in Ontario, Canada
A scoping review of Lyme disease research relevant to public health
A systematic review on the impact of gestational Lyme disease in humans on the fetus and newborn
Advancing knowledge and increasing capacity to address climate-driven infectious diseases in Canada
Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae) Ticks Are Not Vectors of the Lyme Disease Agent, Borrelia burgdorferi (Spirocheatales: Spirochaetaceae): A Review of the Evidence
Analysis of recombinational switching at the antigenic variation locus of the Lyme spirochete using a novel PacBio sequencing pipeline
Anaplasmosis: An emerging tick-borne disease of importance in Canada
Antigenic Variation in the Lyme Spirochete: Insights into Recombinational Switching with a Suggested Role for Error-Prone Repair
Assessing the Repeatability of Tick Dragging as a Method for Ixodes scapularis Surveillance
Babesia odocoilei as a cause of mortality in captive cervids in Canada
Baited vaccines: A strategy to mitigate rodent‐borne viral zoonoses in humans
Better drugs for Lyme disease: focus on the spirochete
Case Report: A Case of Colorado Tick Fever Acquired in Southwestern Saskatchewan
Citizen Science and Community Engagement in Tick Surveillance—A Canadian Case Study
Clinical evaluation of Morgellons disease in a cohort of North American patients
Clinical manifestations of reported Lyme disease cases in Ontario, Canada: 2005-2014
Clinical presentation of Lyme disease in the higher-risk region of Quebec: a retrospective descriptive study
Combining public participatory surveillance and occupancy modelling to predict the distributional response of Ixodes scapularis to climate change
Competition between strains of Borrelia afzelii inside the rodent host and the tick vector

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