It’s August and instead of roasting in the hot sun, I’ve been updating the Lyme Disease in Canada website with papers highlighting the work of Canadian scientists in the fields of tick and tick-borne disease research.
These latest additions bring the number of papers indexed this year to 43. Not bad when you consider the total number of research papers indexed from 2010 to present sits just shy of 300. It seems research is ramping up and that can only be a good thing.
For those of you who like to spend your summer days reading research papers (and really, who doesn’t?), the following is a list of the 2019 papers I’ve just added:
Genetic diversity of Borrelia garinii from Ixodes uriae collected in seabird colonies of the northwestern Atlantic Ocean
Quebec's Multi-Party Observatory on Zoonoses and Adaptation to Climate Change
Babesia odocoilei and zoonotic pathogens identified from Ixodes scapularis ticks in southern Ontario, Canada
An individual-based model for the dispersal of Ixodes scapularis by ovenbirds and wood thrushes during fall migration
Polio-Like Manifestation of Powassan Virus Infection with Anterior Horn Cell Involvement, Canada.
In addition to these papers, I’ve added some historical papers (historical = pre-2019) that somehow got missed when I was indexing papers in previous years. (Not really surprising when you consider how mind-numbingly boring indexing research papers can be.)
Here’s what I’ve added:
2018
A comparison of the cuticular properties of the female ticks Ixodes pacificus and Amblyomma hebraeum (Acari: Ixodidae) throughout the feeding period
Prevalence of Anaplasma bovis in Canadian populations of the Rocky Mountain wood tick, Dermacentor andersoni
Babesia odocoilei as a cause of mortality in captive cervids in Canada
Serological survey of canine vector-borne diseases in Saskatchewan, Canada
Competition between strains of Borrelia afzelii inside the rodent host and the tick vector
Anaplasmosis: An emerging tick-borne disease of importance in Canada
2017
Lyme Disease Bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato, Detected in Multiple Tick Species at Kenora, Ontario, Canada
Life Cycle of Dermacentor everestianus Hirst, 1926 (Acari: Ixodidae) under Laboratory Conditions
2016
Prevalence of Rickettsia species in Dermacentor variabilis ticks from Ontario, Canada
Can Subclinical Infestation by Paralyzing Dermacentor andersoni (Acari: Ixodidae) Induce Immunity to Tick Paralysis in Sheep?
Seroprevalence of Babesia microti infection in Canadian blood donors
Human pathogens associated with the blacklegged tick Ixodes scapularis: a systematic review
2015
Mechanical properties of the cuticle of the tick Amblyomma hebraeum (Acari: Ixodidae)
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As always, if you are aware of any tick or tick-borne illness research being done in Canada or involving Canadian researchers that you believe I should be covering, please drop me a line at thelymereport@substack.com.