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 12, 2026.

2026
Title
Advanced Molecular and Microscopic Diagnostics Suggest Congenital Borrelia Transmission: A Case Report
Advancements in nanotrap technology for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases
Biosensor for Lyme Disease: Real-time, Specific, and Label-Free Complementary Metal-Oxide-Silicon Transistor Sensing of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. Outer Surface Protein A in Unprocessed Blood
Evolution of Translational Machinery in Fast- and Slow-Growing Bacteria
In vitro assessment of entomopathogenic potential of Clonostachys rosea (Ascomycota: Hypocreales) against Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) and Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae) ticks
Increased Borrelia burgdorferi Seroprevalence in Nova Scotia-Prevalence and Distribution 10 Years Later
Positive fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in Lyme myocarditis: A case report
Telomere-to-telomere assembly detects genomic diversity in Canadian strains of Borrelia burgdorferi
Unravelling the genomic landscape of Canadian Borrelia burgdorferi: a comparison across global strains
2025
Title
'You adapt, and you try not to resent it': a qualitative study exploring impacts of living with ticks and barriers to adopting preventive measures in Canada
A machine learning framework for estimating the probability of blacklegged tick population establishment in eastern Canada using Earth observation data
A systematic review of the effectiveness and utility of Lyme disease prevention measures in Canada, the United States, and Europe
Acute Febrile Illness Accompanied by 7th and 12th Cranial Nerve Palsy Due to Lyme Disease Following Travel to Rural Ecuador: A Case Report and Mini-Review
Anaplasmosis: Emerging Threat in Canada
Babesia nucleic acid prevalence among blood donors in southern Québec
Borrelia burgdorferi lacking all cp32 prophage plasmids retains full infectivity in mice
Borrelia burgdorferi Strain-Specific Differences in Mouse Infectivity and Pathology
Combining Object Detection, Super-Resolution GANs and Transformers to Facilitate Tick Identification Workflow from Crowdsourced Images on the eTick Platform
Conversion of a telomere resolvase into a Cre-like site-specific recombinase
Corrigendum to "Various small mammal hosts are involved in the transmission cycle of zoonotic Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Southeastern Canada" [Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases (2025) Volume 16, Issue 6]
Corrigendum to “Rodent-targeted fluralaner baiting reduces the density of Borrelia burgdorferi-infected questing Ixodes scapularis ticks in a peri-urban setting in southern Canada”
Current and future ecological niche of Dermacentor similis Lado (Acari: Ixodidae) in western North America
Current and future ecological niche of Dermacentor similis Lado (Acari: Ixodidae) in western North America
Distribution of Dermacentor andersoni Stiles and Dermacentor variabilis (Say) (Acari: Ixodidae) in western Canada based on active surveillance
Early disseminated cutaneous Lyme disease with SIADH, transaminitis, and pancytopenia: A case report

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