During the spring in 2005 and 2006, 39,095 northward-migrating land birds were captured
at 12 bird observatories in eastern Canada to investigate the role of migratory birds in …

One year into the global COVID-19 pandemic, the focus of attention has shifted to the
emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs). After nearly a year of the …

• Expansion of the geographic range of the tick vector Ixodes scapularis in Canada is leading
to increasing numbers of endemic areas for Lyme disease.• Because the specificity of …

Background Lyme disease is the commonest vector-borne zoonosis in the temperate world,
and an emerging infectious disease in Canada due to expansion of the geographic range of …

We investigated the reservoir role of European wild rodents for Anaplasma phagocytophila
using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis of blood collected from individually tagged …

Background: The extent to which climate change may affect human health by increasing risk
from vector-borne diseases has been under considerable debate. Objectives: We quantified …

Background Northward expansion of the tick Ixodes scapularis is driving Lyme disease (LD)
emergence in Canada. Information on mechanisms involved is needed to enhance …

The evolutionary ecology of many emerging infectious diseases, particularly vector-borne
zoonoses, is poorly understood. Here, we aim to develop a biological, process-based …

The global climate has been changing over the last century due to greenhouse gas emissions
and will continue to change over this century, accelerating without effective global efforts …

Over the past two decades, Ixodes scapularis, the primary tick vector of the Lyme disease
pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi in North America has expanded its range northward from the …