Canadian Tick-borne Research 2010-Present

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Last updated: May 1, 2024

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2015
Ogden NH, Mechai S, Margos G, Moriarty TJ, Michel P, Lindsay LR, Leighton PA, and Feil EJ, “Evolutionary aspects of emerging Lyme disease in Canada”, Appl Environ Microbiol, vol. 81, no. 21, 2015.
Ogden NH, Barker IK, Francis CA, Heagy A, Lindsay LR, and Hobson KA, “How far north are migrant birds transporting the tick Ixodes scapularis in Canada? Insights from stable hydrogen isotope analyses of feathers.”, Ticks Tick Borne Dis., 2015.
Bouchard C, Leonard E, Koffi JK, Pelcat Y, Peregrine A, Chilton NB, Rochon K, Lysyk T, Lindsay LR, and Ogden NH, “The increasing risk of Lyme disease in Canada”, Can Vet J., vol. 56, no. 7, 2015.
Eisen RJ, Eisen L, Ogden NH, and Beard CB, “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.
Kulkarni MA, Berrang-Ford L, Buck PA, Drebot MA, Lindsay LR, and Ogden NH, “Major emerging vector-borne zoonotic diseases of public health importance in Canada”, Emerg Microbes Infect, vol. 4, 2015.
Ogden NH, Lindsay LR, and Schofield SW, “Methods to Prevent Tick Bites and Lyme Disease.”, Clin Lab Med, vol. 35, no. 4, 2015.
Barton-Forbes M, Leonard E, Lindsay LR, Langley JM, Koffi JK, and Ogden NH, “Tick bites in the Lyme light.”, Paediatr Child Health, vol. 20, no. 5, 2015.
2014
Margos G, Piesman J, Lane RS, Ogden NH, Sing A, Straubinger RK, and Fingerle V, “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.
Simon JA, Marrotte RR, Desrosiers N, Fiset J, Gaitan J, Gonzalez A, Koffi JK, Lapointe FJ, Leighton PA, Lindsay LR, Logan T, Milord F, Ogden NH, Rogic A, Roy-Dufresne E, Suter D, Tessier N, and Millien V, “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.
Parkinson AJ, Evengard B, Semenza JC, Ogden NH, Børresen ML, Berner J, Brubaker M, Sjöstedt A, Evander M, Hondula DM, Menne B, Pshenichnaya N, Gounder P, Larose T, Revich B, Hueffer K, and Albihn A, “Climate change and infectious diseases in the Arctic: establishment of a circumpolar working group.”, Int J Circumpolar Health, vol. 73, 2014.
Ogden NH, Radojević M, Wu X, Duvvuri VR, Leighton P, and Wu J, “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.
Dibernardo A, Cote T, Ogden NH, and Lindsay LR, “The prevalence of Borrelia miyamotoi infection, and co-infections with other Borrelia spp. in Ixodes scapularis ticks collected in Canada.”, Parasites & Vectors, vol. 7, 2014.
2013
Ogden NH, Mechai SK, and Margos G, “Changing geographic ranges of ticks and tick-borne pathogens: drivers, mechanisms and consequences for pathogen diversity”, Front Cell Infect Microbiol, vol. 3, 2013.
Wu X, Duvvuri VR, Lou Y, Ogden NH, Pelcat Y, and Wu J, “Developing a temperature-driven map of the basic reproductive number of the emerging tick vector of Lyme disease, Ixodes scapularis, in Canada.”, J Theor Biol, vol. 319, 2013.
Bouchard C, Beauchamp G, Leighton P, Lindsay LR, Bélanger D, and Ogden NH, “Does high biodiversity reduce the risk of Lyme disease invasion?”, Parasit Vectors, vol. 6, 2013.
Kulkarni MA, Lecocq AC, Artsob H, Drebot MA, and Ogden NH, “Epidemiology and aetiology of encephalitis in Canada, 1994-2008: a case for undiagnosed arboviral agents?”, Epidemiol Infect., vol. 141, no. 11, 2013.
Bouchard C, Leighton P, Beauchamp G, Nguon S, Trudel L, Milord F, Lindsay LR, Bélanger D, and Ogden NH, “Harvested white-tailed deer as sentinel hosts for early establishing Ixodes scapularis populations and risk from vector-borne zoonoses in Southeastern Canada.”, J Med Entomol, vol. 50, no. 2, 2013.
Mechai S, Feil EJ, Gariepy TD, Gregory TR, Lindsay LR, Millien V, and Ogden NH, “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”, J Med Entomol, vol. 50, no. 3, 2013.
Hanincova K, Mukherjee P, Ogden NH, Margos G, Wormser GP, Reed KD, Meece JK, Vandermause MF, and Schwartz I, “Multilocus sequence typing of Borrelia burgdorferi suggests existence of lineages with differential pathogenic properties in humans”, PLoS One, vol. 8, no. 9, 2013.
Ogden NH, Lindsay LR, and Leighton P, “Predicting the rate of invasion of the agent of Lyme disease Borrelia burgdorferi”, Journal of Applied Ecology, vol. 50, no. 2, 2013.
2012
Gariepy TD, Lindsay LR, Ogden NH, and Gregory TR, “Identifying the last supper: utility of the DNA barcode library for bloodmeal identification in ticks.”, Mol Ecol Resour., vol. 12, no. 4, 2012.
Koffi JK, Leighton PA, Pelcat Y, Trudel L, Lindsay LR, Milord F, and Ogden NH, “Passive Surveillance for I. scapularis ticks: enhanced analysis for early detection of emerging Lyme disease risk”, J Med Entomol, vol. 49, no. 2, 2012.
Leighton P, Koffi JK, Pelcat Y, Lindsay LR, and Ogden NH, “Predicting the speed of tick invasion: an empirical model of range expansion for Lyme disease vector Ixodes scapularis in Canada.”, Journal of Applied Ecology, vol. 49, 2012.
Margos G, Tsao JI, Castillo-Ramírez S, Girard YA, Hamer SA, Hoen AG, Lane RS, Raper SL, and Ogden NH, “Two boundaries separate Borrelia burgdorferi populations in North America.”, Appl Environ Microbiol, vol. 78, no. 17, 2012.
2011
Bouchard C, Beauchamp G, Nguon S, Trudel L, Milord F, Lindsay LR, Bélanger D, and Ogden NH, “Associations between Ixodes scapularis ticks and small mammal hosts in a newly endemic zone in southeastern Canada: Implications for Borrelia burgdorferi transmission.”, Ticks Tick Borne Dis., vol. 2, no. 4, 2011.

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