Canadian Tick-borne Research 2010-Present
Please note that while summaries of the journal articles listed below are fairly universally accessible by members of the public, full text access often (though not always) requires a fee and/or account.
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 whatever details you have.
Last updated: November 14, 2023
Found 594 results
, “Linkages of Weather and Climate With Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae), Enzootic Transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi, and Lyme Disease in North America”, J Med Entomol, 2015.
, “Lyme Disease Diagnosed by Alternative Methods: A Phenotype Similar to That of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”, Clin Infect Dis, vol. 61, no. 7, 2015.
, “Lyme disease: How reliable are serologic results?”, CMAJ, vol. 187, no. 16, 2015.
, “Lyme disease: Knowledge and practices of family practitioners in southern Quebec”, Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiology, vol. 26, no. 3, 2015.
, “Lyme law: targeting best practices”, CMAJ, vol. 187, no. 12, p. 911, 2015.
, “Major emerging vector-borne zoonotic diseases of public health importance in Canada”, Emerg Microbes Infect, vol. 4, 2015.
, “Mechanical properties of the cuticle of the tick Amblyomma hebraeum (Acari: Ixodidae).”, J Exp Biol, vol. 218, no. Pt 17, pp. 2806-2814, 2015.
, “Methods to Prevent Tick Bites and Lyme Disease.”, Clin Lab Med, vol. 35, no. 4, 2015.
, “Passive surveillance for ticks on horses in Saskatchewan”, The Canadian Veterinary Journal, vol. 56, no. 5, 2015.
, “Phylogeographic Structure of the White-Footed Mouse and the Deer Mouse, Two Lyme Disease Reservoir Hosts in Québec”, PLoS One, vol. 10, no. 12, 2015.
, “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”, Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases, vol. 15, no. 10, 2015.
, “Sequence variability in the mitochondrial 12S rRNA and tRNA(Val) genes of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) individuals shown previously to be genetically invariant.”, Mol Cell Probes., vol. 29, no. 3, 2015.
, “Seroprevalence of equine granulocytic anaplasmosis and lyme borreliosis in Canada as determined by a point-of-care enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).”, Can Vet J, vol. 56, no. 6, 2015.
, “Surveillance for Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes Ticks and Small Rodents in British Columbia”, Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis, vol. 15, no. 11, 2015.
, “Tick bites in the Lyme light.”, Paediatr Child Health, vol. 20, no. 5, 2015.
, “Bill C-442: Shining the Limelight on the Lyme-Like?”, Canadian Journal of Infectious Disease and Medical Microbiology, vol. 25, 2014.
, “Borrelia kurtenbachii sp. nov., a widely distributed member of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species complex in North America”, Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, vol. 64, no. Pt. 1, 2014.
, “Climate change and habitat fragmentation drive the occurrence of Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease, at the northeastern limit of its distribution.”, Evol Appl., vol. 7, no. 7, 2014.
, “Climate change and infectious diseases in the Arctic: establishment of a circumpolar working group.”, Int J Circumpolar Health, vol. 73, 2014.
, “Comparison of the DNA sequences and secondary structure of the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene of Ixodes kingi, Ixodes sculptus and Ixodes angustus”, Molecular and Cellular Probes, vol. 28, no. 4, 2014.
, “Construction and characterization of a Borrelia burgdorferi strain with conditional expression of the essential telomere resolvase, ResT.”, J Bacteriol., vol. 196, no. 13, 2014.
, “The Establishment of a Blacklegged Tick Population by Migratory Songbirds in Ontario, Canada.”, J Veter Sci Med, vol. 2, no. 1, 2014.
, “Estimated Effects of Projected Climate Change on the Basic Reproductive Number of the Lyme Disease Vector Ixodes scapularis”, Environ Health Perspectives, vol. 122, no. 6, 2014.
, “The first case of locally acquired tick-borne Babesia microti infection in Canada.”, Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol., vol. 25, no. 6, 2014.
, “From Lyme disease emergence to endemicity: a cross sectional comparative study of risk perceptions in different populations.”, BMC Public Health, vol. 14, 2014.
