Canadian Tick-borne 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: May 1, 2024
Found 634 results
, “Species distribution models for the eastern blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, and the Lyme disease pathogen, Borrelia burgdorferi, in Ontario, Canada ”, PLoS One , vol. 15, no. 9, 2020.
, “Strain-specific Joint Invasion and Colonization by Lyme Disease Spirochetes Is Promoted by Outer Surface Protein C ”, PLoS Pathog, vol. 16, no. 5, 2020.
, “Supercooling Points of Adult Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae) From a Population Near the Northern Distribution Limit”, J Med Entomol, 2020.
, “Telephone Versus Web Panel National Survey for Monitoring Adoption of Preventive Behaviors to Climate Change in Populations: A Case Study of Lyme Disease in Québec, Canada”, BMC Med Res Methodol., vol. 20, no. 1, 2020.
, “Temporal Detection Limits of Remnant Larval Bloodmeals in Nymphal Ixodes scapularis (Say, Ixodida: Ixodidae) Using Two Next-Generation Sequencing DNA Barcoding Assays”, J Med Entomol, 2020.
, “Unleashing the literature: a scoping review of canine zoonotic and vectorborne disease research in Canis familiaris in North America”, Anim Health Res Rev, pp. 1-14, 2020.
, “The Value of the Surface ECG for the Diagnosis and Management of Lyme Carditis”, Curr Cardiol Rev., 2020.
, “What was lost, missing, sought and hoped for: Qualitatively exploring medical crowdfunding campaign narratives for Lyme disease”, Health, 2020.
, “Within-population diversity of bacterial microbiomes in winter ticks (Dermacentor albipictus)”, Ticks Tick Borne Dis, vol. 11, no. 6, p. 101535, 2020.
, “Antigenic variation in the Lyme spirochete: detailed functional assessment of recombinational switching at vlsE in the JD1 strain of Borrelia burgdorferi.”, Mol Microbiol., 2019.
, “Are Ticks the Answer to Medical Device-Associated Clotting?”, J Am Coll Cardiol, vol. 74, no. 17, 2019.
, “Babesia odocoilei and zoonotic pathogens identified from Ixodes scapularis ticks in southern Ontario, Canada”, Ticks Tick Borne Dis, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 670-676, 2019.
, “Behavioral responses of Ixodes scapularis tick to natural products: development of novel repellents.”, Exp Appl Acarol, 2019.
, “Biologic Markers of Antibiotic-Refractory Lyme Arthritis in Human: A Systematic Review”, Infect Dis. Ther., vol. 8, no. 1, 2019.
, “A case of mysterious black spots in a mixed breed dog”, Vet. Dermatol., vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 560-562, 2019.
, “Changing of the guard: How the Lyme disease spirochete subverts the host immune response”, J Biol Chem, 2019.
, “Climate change and infectious diseases: What can we expect?”, Can Commun Dis Rep, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 76-80, 2019.
, “Clinical presentation of reported Lyme disease cases among children from Quebec (Canada) between 2009-2017”, International Journal of Infectious Diseases, vol. 79, no. 1, p. 148, 2019.
, “Combatting Lyme disease myths and the “chronic Lyme industry””, CMAJ, vol. 191, no. 40, pp. E111-E1112, 2019.
, “Comment on Schillberg, E., et al; Distribution of Ixodes scapularis in Northwestern Ontario: Results from Active and Passive Surveillance Activities in the Northwestern Health Unit Catchment Area. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2018, 15, 2225”, Int J Environ Res Public Health, vol. 16, no. 11, 2019.
, “Competition Between Strains of Borrelia afzelii in Immature Ixodes ricinus Ticks Is Not Affected by Season”, Front Cell Infect Mi, vol. 9, 2019.
, “Could Powassan Virus Be Endemic to British Columbia?”, CMAJ, 2019.
, “Critical diapause portion for oscillations: Parametric trigonometric functions and their applications for Hopf bifurcation analyses”, Math Meth Appl Sci, vol. 42, pp. 1363-1376, 2019.
, “Deconvoluting the diversity of within-host pathogen strains in a multi-locus sequence typing framework”, BMC Bioinformatics, vol. 20, no. Suppl 20, 2019.
, “Detection and Transstadial Passage of Babesia Species and Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato in Ticks Collected from Avian and Mammalian Hosts in Canada”, Healthcare (Basel), vol. 7, no. 4, 2019.
