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 25, 2026.

2026
Title
Surveillance for Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus ticks and their associated pathogens in Canada, 2021
2024
Title
Quality over quantity in active tick surveillance: Sentinel surveillance outperforms risk-based surveillance for tracking tick-borne disease emergence in southern Canada
Spatial multi-criteria decision analysis for the selection of sentinel regions in tick-borne disease surveillance
The distribution of Babesia odocoilei in Ixodes species ticks in Canada: Implications for one health surveillance
2022
Title
Criteria for selecting sentinel unit locations in a surveillance system for vector-borne disease: A decision tool
Sentinel Surveillance Contributes to Tracking Lyme Disease Spatiotemporal Risk Trends in Southern Quebec, Canada
The added value of One Health surveillance: data from questing ticks can provide an early signal for anaplasmosis outbreaks in animals and humans
The utility of a maximum entropy species distribution model for Ixodes scapularis in predicting the public health risk of Lyme disease in Ontario, Canada
2021
Title
Modelling Spatiotemporal Patterns of Lyme Disease Emergence in Québec
2020
Title
Sentinel surveillance of Lyme disease risk in Canada, 2019: Results from the first year of the Canadian Lyme Sentinel Network (CaLSeN)