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 4, 2025.

2013
Title
Effect of latitude on the rate of change in incidence of Lyme disease in the United States
Epidemiology and aetiology of encephalitis in Canada, 1994-2008: a case for undiagnosed arboviral agents?
First Detection of Lyme Disease Spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi in Ticks Collected from a Raptor in Canada
Genetic structure of the white-footed mouse in the context of the emergence of Lyme disease in southern Québec.
Harvested white-tailed deer as sentinel hosts for early establishing Ixodes scapularis populations and risk from vector-borne zoonoses in Southeastern Canada.
Illuminating the roles of the Borrelia burgdorferi adhesins
Investigation of the population structure of the tick vector of Lyme disease Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) in Canada using mitochondrial cytochrome C oxidase subunit I gene sequences
Multilocus sequence typing of Borrelia burgdorferi suggests existence of lineages with differential pathogenic properties in humans
Peaceful coexistence amongst Borrelia plasmids: Getting by with a little help from their friends?
Poleward Expansion of the White-Footed Mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) under Climate Change: Implications for the Spread of Lyme Disease
Predicting the rate of invasion of the agent of Lyme disease Borrelia burgdorferi
Protein-losing nephropathy associated with Borrelia burgdorferi seropositivity in a soft-coated wheaten terrier: response to therapy
Range expansion of Dermacentor variabilis and Dermacentor andersoni (Acari: Ixodidae) near their northern distributional limits
Suggested Role for G4 DNA in Recombination Switching at the Antigenic Variation Locus of the Lyme Disease Spirochete.
Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) on small mammals in Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, Canada
2012
Title
Analysis of an Ordered, Comprehensive STM Mutant Library in Infectious Borrelia burgdorferi: Insights into the Genes Required for Mouse Infectivity.
CSM Murray Award Lecture – Functional studies of the Lyme disease spirochete – from molecules to mice
Evolving perspectives on Lyme borreliosis in Canada
Granulocytic anaplasmosis in a horse from Saskatchewan
Identifying the last supper: utility of the DNA barcode library for bloodmeal identification in ticks.
Lyme disease test kits and limitations
Lyme disease: Knowledge, beliefs, and practices of physicians in a low-endemic area.
Passive Surveillance for I. scapularis ticks: enhanced analysis for early detection of emerging Lyme disease risk
Predicting the speed of tick invasion: an empirical model of range expansion for Lyme disease vector Ixodes scapularis in Canada.
Two boundaries separate Borrelia burgdorferi populations in North America.

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