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.

2017
Title
Current and potential future distribution of the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis, Say) in North America.
Detecting and Attributing Health Burdens to Climate Change
Detection of Borrelia Genomospecies 2 in Ixodes spinipalpis Ticks Collected from a Rabbit in Canada
Detection of Lyme Disease Bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, in Blacklegged Ticks Collected in the Grand River Valley, Ontario, Canada
Diet-Induced Obesity Does Not Alter Tigecycline Treatment Efficacy in Murine Lyme Disease
Electrocardiographic progression of acute Lyme disease
Emerging arboviruses in Quebec, Canada: assessing public health risk by serology in humans, horses and pet dogs
Emerging infectious diseases: prediction and detection
Evaluating the submission of digital images as a method of surveillance for Ixodes scapularis ticks
Evidence for Borrelia bavariensis infections of Ixodes uriae within seabird colonies of the North Atlantic Ocean.
Evidence for genetic hybridization between Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes cookei
Expansion of the Lyme Disease Vector Ixodes scapularis in Canada Inferred from CMIP5 Climate Projections
Exposure and preventive behaviours toward ticks and Lyme disease in Canada: Results from a first national survey.
First record of locally acquired human babesiosis in Canada caused by Babesia duncani: a case report
Human seroprevalence of Borrelia miyamotoi in Manitoba, Canada, in 2011-2014: a cross-sectional study.
Identification of Tp0751 (Pallilysin) as a Treponema pallidum Vascular Adhesin by Heterologous Expression in the Lyme disease Spirochete.
Life Cycle of Dermacentor everestianus Hirst, 1926 (Acari: Ixodidae) under Laboratory Conditions.
Liver microbiome of Peromyscus leucopus, a key reservoir host species for emerging infectious diseases in North America
Lyme Disease Bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato, Detected in Multiple Tick Species at Kenora, Ontario, Canada
Lyme disease ecology in a changing world: consensus, uncertainty and critical gaps for improving control
Lyme disease vs Baggio-Yoshinari syndrome in a returned traveller from Brazil
Microbiota of field-collected Ixodes scapularis and Dermacentor variabilis from eastern and southern Ontario, Canada
Modeling Lyme disease transmission
Northern Trek: The Spread of Ixodes scapularis into Canada
Northward range expansion of Ixodes scapularis evident over a short timescale in Ontario, Canada

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