There’s a definite chill in the air these days, but it serves as an excellent reminder that we need to be vigilant about the blacklegged ticks that are active this time of year, making tick checks essential after spending any time out in the greenery.
My latest search of scientific journals turned up a handful from this year that hadn’t yet made it into my database. The addition of these latest papers brings the total number of Canadian-authored research papers on the Lyme Disease in Canada site to 314 and counting.
Here’s what I’ve added to the 2019 list:
Prevention of transfusion-transmitted infections
Detection of 'Candidatus Ehrlichia khabarensis' in rodents and ticks removed from rodents in British Columbia, Canada
Sex-Specific Linkages Between Taxonomic and Functional Profiles of Tick Gut Microbiomes
What is your diagnosis? A feline blood smear
Pharmacokinetics of imidocarb dipropionate in white‐tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) after single intramuscular administration
Behavioral responses of Ixodes scapularis tick to natural products: development of novel repellents
In addition to the papers I’ve added for this year, I’ve also added some historical ones (historical = pre-2019) that got missed when I was indexing papers in previous years. It’s amazing how many of these turn up despite what I thought were thorough searches at the time.
Here’s what I’ve added:
2018
2017
Identification of Tp0751 (Pallilysin) as a Treponema pallidum Vascular Adhesin by Heterologous Expression in the Lyme disease Spirochete
2016
Blood-Borne Pathogens: A Canadian Blood Services Centre for Innovation Symposium
2014
Origin of Dermacentor albipictus (Acari: Ixodidae) on elk in the Yukon, Canada
Use of the polymerase chain reaction assay for the detection of Babesia odocoilei 18S ribosomal RNA in formalin-fixed tissues
Population-based passive tick surveillance and detection of expanding foci of blacklegged ticks Ixodes scapularis and the Lyme disease agent Borrelia burgdorferi in Ontario, Canada
2013
Periplasmic flagellar export apparatus protein, FliH, is involved in post-transcriptional regulation of FlaB, motility and virulence of the relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia hermsii
Host specialization in ticks and transmission of tick-borne diseases: a review
Risk of tick-borne infections on the rise
Animal models of tick-borne hemorrhagic Fever viruses
2012
Dispersion and sampling of adult Dermacentor andersoni in rangeland in Western North America
Granulocytic anaplasmosis in a horse from Saskatchewan
2011
Seabirds and the circulation of Lyme borreliosis bacteria in the North Pacific
Novel genotypes of Anaplasma bovis, "Candidatus midichloria" sp. and Ignatzschineria sp. in the Rocky Mountain wood tick, Dermacentor andersoni
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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.