Canadian Tick-borne Illness 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.

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Last updated: November 2, 2020

Found 398 results
2019
Bondo KJ, Macbeth B, Schwantje H, Orsel K, Culling D, Culling B, Tryland M, Nymo IH, and Kutz S, “Health Survey of boreal caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) in northeastern British Columbia, Canada”, J Wildl Dis, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 544-562, 2019.
Norte AC, Margos G, Becker NS, Ramos JA, Nuncio MS, Fingerle, V., Araujo PM, Adamik P, Alivizatos H, Barba E, Barrientos R, Cauchard L, Csorgo T, Diakou A, Dingemanse NJ, Doligez B, Dubiec A, Eeva T, Flaisz B, Grim T, Hau M, Heylen D, Hornok S, Kazantzidis S, Kovats D, Krause F, Literak I, Mand R, Mentesana L, Morinay J, Mutanen M, Neto JM, Novakova M, Sanz JJ, da Silva LP, Sprong J, Tirri IS, Torok J, Trilar T, Tyller Z, Visser ME, and de Carvalho IL, “Host dispersal shapes the population structure of a tick‐borne bacterial pathogen”, Molecular Ecology, 2019.
Lewis J and Lloyd VK, “Identification of Borrelia bissettii in Ixodes scapularis ticks from New Brunswick, Canada”, Can J Microbiology, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 155-161, 2019.
Federizon J, Frye A, Huang WC, Hart TM, He X, Beltran C, Marcinkiewicz AL, Mainprize IL, Wills MKB, Lin YP, and Lovell JF, “Immunogenicity of the Lyme disease antigen OspA, particleized by cobalt porphyrin-phospholipid liposomes”, Vaccine, 2019.
Bouchard C, Dibernardo A, Lindsay LR, Wood H, and Leighton PA, “Increased risk of tick-borne diseases with climate and environmental changes”, Canada Communicable Disease Report, vol. 45, pp. 83-89, 2019.
Tonelli BA and Dearborn DC, “An individual-based model for the dispersal of Ixodes scapularis by ovenbirds and wood thrushes during fall migration”, Ticks Tick Borne Dis, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 1096-1104, 2019.
Leiby DA, O'Brien SF, Wendel S, Nguyen ML, Delage G, Devare SG, Hardiman A, Nakhasi HL, Sauleda S, and Block EM, “International survey on the impact of parasitic infections: frequency of transmission and current mitigation strategies”, Vox Sang, vol. 114, no. 1, pp. 17-27, 2019.
Talbot B, Slatculescu AM, Thickstun C, Koffi JK, Leighton PA, McKay R, and Kulkarni MA, “Landscape determinants of density of blacklegged ticks, vectors of Lyme disease, at the northern edge of their distribution in Canada.”, Sci Rep, vol. 9, no. 1, 2019.
Ginsberg HS, Rulison EL, Miller JL, Pang G, Arsnoe IM, Hickling GJ, Ogden NH, LeBrun RA, and Tsao JI, “Local abundance of Ixodes scapularis in forests: Effects of environmental moisture, vegetation characteristics, and host abundance”, Ticks Tick Borne Dis, vol. 14, 2019.
Mac S, Bahia S, Simbulan F, Pullenayegum EM, Evans GA, Patel SN, and Sander B, “Long-term sequelae and health-related quality-of-life associated with Lyme disease: A systematic review”, Clin Infect Dis, 2019.
Crinion D, Yeung C, and Baranchuk A, “Lyme carditis atrioventricular block: management strategies”, Ep Europace, no. euz051, 2019.
Kulkarni MA, Narula I, Slatculescu AM, and Russell C, “Lyme Disease Emergence after Invasion of the Blacklegged Tick, Ixodes scapularis, Ontario, Canada, 2010-2016”, Emerg Infect Dis, vol. 25, no. 2, 2019.
Bamm VV, Ko JT, Mainprize IL, Sanderson VP, and Wills MKB, “Lyme Disease Frontiers: Reconciling Borrelia Biology and Clinical Conundrums”, Pathogens, vol. 8, no. 4, 2019.
Ogden NH, Gasmi S, Koffi JK, Barton M, Lindsay LR, and Langley JM, “Lyme disease in children: Data from the Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program”, Ticks Tick Borne Dis., 2019.
Journault AA, Richard L, and Aenishaenslin C, “Lyme disease prevention: A content analysis of Canadian patient group and government websites”, Zoonoses Public Health, 2019.
Valand HA, Goyal A, Melendez DA, Matharu SS, Mangat HS, and Tu RK, “Lyme Disease: What the Neuroradiologist Needs to Know”, AJNR Am J Neuroradiol, 2019.
Li X, Kirschner A, Metrie M, and Loeb M, “Lyme neuroborreliosis presenting as spinal myoclonus”, BMJ Case Rep, vol. 12, no. 12, 2019.
Gomez-Chamorro A, Heinrich V, Sarr A, Roethlisberger O, Genne D, Bregnard C, Jacquet M, and Voordouw M, “Maternal antibodies provide strain-specific protection against infection with the Lyme disease pathogen in bank voles.”, Appl Environ Microbiol, 2019.
Jarosz AC and Badawi A, “Metabolites of prostaglandin synthases as potential biomarkers of Lyme disease severity and symptom resolution”, Inflamm Res., vol. 68, no. 1, 2019.
Middelveen MJ, Filush KR, Bandoski C, Kasliwala RS, Melillo A, Stricker RB, and Sapi E, “Mixed Borrelia burgdorferi and Helicobacter pylori Biofilms in Morgellons Disease Dermatological Specimens.”, Healthcare, vol. 7, no. 2, p. E70, 2019.

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