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  • Surveillance for Ixodes sca...
    Wilson, Christy; Gasmi, Salima; Bourgeois, Annie-Claude; Badcock, Jacqueline; Carr, Justin; Chahil, Navdeep; Coatsworth, Heather; Dibernardo, Antonia; Goundar, Priya; Leighton, Patrick; Lee, Min-Kuang; Morshed, Muhammad; Ripoche, Marion; Savage, Jade

    Canada communicable disease report, 06/2023, Letnik: 49, Številka: 6
    Journal Article

    and ticks are the principal vectors of the agent of Lyme disease and several other tick-borne diseases in Canada. Tick surveillance data can be used to identify local tick-borne disease risk areas and direct public health interventions. The objective of this article is to describe the seasonal and spatial characteristics of the main Lyme disease vectors in Canada, and the tick-borne pathogens they carry, using passive and active surveillance data from 2020. Passive and active surveillance data were compiled from the National Microbiology Laboratory Branch (Public Health Agency of Canada), provincial and local public health authorities, and eTick (an online, image-based platform). Seasonal and spatial analyses of ticks and their associated pathogens are presented, including infection prevalence estimates. In passive surveillance, (n=7,534) were submitted from all provinces except Manitoba and British Columbia, while (n=718) were submitted only from British Columbia. No ticks were submitted from the Territories. The seasonal distribution of submissions was bimodal, but unimodal for . Four tick-borne pathogens were identified in ( , , and ) and one in ( ). In active surveillance, (n=688) were collected in Ontario, Québec and New Brunswick. Five tick-borne pathogens were identified: , , and Powassan virus. This article provides a snapshot of the distribution of and and their associated human pathogens in Canada in 2020, which can help assess the risk of exposure to tick-borne pathogens in different provinces.