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.
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: March 1, 2021
Found 422 results
, “Advancing knowledge and increasing capacity to address climate-driven infectious diseases in Canada”, Can Commun Dis Rep, vol. 44, no. 10, 2018.
, “Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae) Ticks Are Not Vectors of the Lyme Disease Agent, Borrelia burgdorferi (Spirocheatales: Spirochaetaceae): A Review of the Evidence”, J Med Entomol, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 501-514, 2018.
, “Analysis of recombinational switching at the antigenic variation locus of the Lyme spirochete using a novel PacBio sequencing pipeline.”, Mol Microbiol., vol. 107, no. 1, 2018.
, “Anaplasmosis: An emerging tick-borne disease of importance in Canada.”, IDCases, vol. 14, p. e00472, 2018.
, “Antigenic Variation in the Lyme Spirochete: Insights into Recombinational Switching with a Suggested Role for Error-Prone Repair.”, Cell Rep., vol. 23, no. 9, 2018.
, “Assessing the Repeatability of Tick Dragging as a Method for Ixodes scapularis Surveillance”, Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, vol. 18, no. 11, 2018.
, “Babesia odocoilei as a cause of mortality in captive cervids in Canada”, Can Vet J, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 52-58, 2018.
, “Baited vaccines: A strategy to mitigate rodent‐borne viral zoonoses in humans”, Zoonoses and Public Health, 2018.
, “Better drugs for Lyme disease: focus on the spirochete”, Infect Drug Resist, vol. 11, 2018.
, “A Borrelia burgdorferi mini-vls system that undergoes antigenic switching in mice: investigation of the role of plasmid topology and the long inverted repeat.”, Mol Microbiol., vol. 109, no. 5, pp. 710-721, 2018.
, “A case of Powassan encephalitis acquired in southern Quebec”, CMAJ, vol. 190, no. 50, pp. E1478-E1480, 2018.
, “Case Report: A Case of Colorado Tick Fever Acquired in Southwestern Saskatchewan”, Am J Trop Med Hyg, vol. 98, no. 3, pp. 891-893, 2018.
, “Citizen Science and Community Engagement in Tick Surveillance—A Canadian Case Study”, Healthcare, vol. 6, no. 1, 2018.
, “Clinical evaluation of Morgellons disease in a cohort of North American patients”, Dermatol Reports, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 7660, 2018.
, “Clinical manifestations of reported Lyme disease cases in Ontario, Canada: 2005-2014”, PLoS One, vol. 13, no. 6, 2018.
, “Clinical presentation of Lyme disease in the higher-risk region of Quebec: a retrospective descriptive study”, CMAJ Open, vol. 6, no. 1, 2018.
, “Combining public participatory surveillance and occupancy modelling to predict the distributional response of Ixodes scapularis to climate change”, ScienceDirect, vol. 9, no. 3, 2018.
, “A comparison of the cuticular properties of the female ticks Ixodes pacificus and Amblyomma hebraeum (Acari: Ixodidae) throughout the feeding period”, Exp Appl Acarol, vol. 76, no. 3, pp. 365-380, 2018.
, “Competition between strains of Borrelia afzelii inside the rodent host and the tick vector.”, Proc Biol Sci, vol. 285, no. 1890, 2018.
, “The continued rise of Lyme disease in Ontario, Canada: 2017”, Can Commun Dis Rep, vol. 44, no. 10, 2018.
