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UPTick Town Hall - May 2022

UPTick Town Hall - May 2021

UPTick Town Hall presentation slides (~36MB download):

INSIGHT Lab Publications

  1. Logan, J., Knudby, A., Leighton, P.A., Talbot, B., McKay, R., Ramsay, T., Blanford, J.I., Ogden, N.H., Kulkarni, M.A. (2024) Ixodes scapularis density and Borrelia burgdorferi prevalence along a residential-woodland gradient in a region of emerging Lyme disease risk. Scientific Reports 14, Article number: 13107.

  2. Logan, J., Sawada, M., Knudby, A. Ramsay, T., Blanford, J.I., Ogden, N.H., Kulkarni, M.A. (2024) Knowledge, protective behaviours, and perception of Lyme disease in an area of emerging risk: results from a cross-sectional survey of adults in Ottawa, Ontario. BMC Public Health 24, article number 867.

  3. Logan, J., Hoi, A.G., Sawada, M., Knudby, A., Ramsay, T., Blanford, J., Ogden, N.H., Kulkarni, M.A. (2023) Risk factors for Lyme disease resulting from residential exposure amidst emerging Ixodes scapularis populations: a neighbourhood-level analysis of Ottawa, Ontario. PLOS ONE 18(8): e0290463.

  4. Slatculescu, A.M., Pugliese, M., Sander, B., Zinszer, Z., Nelder, M.P., Russell, C.B., Kulkarni, M.A. (2022) Rurality, socioeconomic status, and residence in environmental risk areas associated with increased Lyme disease incidence in Ontario, Canada: A case-control study. Vector-borne & Zoonotic Diseases 22(12):572-581.

  5. Burrows, H., Talbot B., McKay R., Slatculescu, A., Logan, J., Thickstun, C., Lindsay, L.R., Dibernardo, A., Koffi, J.K., Ogden, N., Kulkarni, M.A. (2021) A multi-year assessment of blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) population establishment and Lyme disease risk areas in Ottawa, Canada, 2017-2019. PLOS ONE 16(2):e0246484.

  6. Guillot, C., Badcock, J., Bouchard, C., Cram, J., Clow, K., Dergousoff, S., Dibernardo, A., Evason, M., Fraser, E., Galanis, E., Gasmi, S., German, G.J., Howes, D.T., Jardine, C., Jenkins, E., Koffi, J., Kulkarni, M.A., Lindsay, L.R., Lumsden, G., McKay, R., Moore, K., Morshed, M., Munn, D., Nelder, M., Nocera, J., Ripoche, M., Rochon, K., Russell, C., Slatculescu, A., Talbot, B., Thivierge, K., Voordouw, M. & Leighton, P. (2020) Sentinel surveillance of Lyme disease risk in Canada, 2019: results from the first year of the Canadian Lyme Sentinel Network (CLSN). Canada Communicable Disease Report 46(10):354-361.

  7. Slatculescu, A.M., Clow, K.M, McKay, R., Talbot, B., Logan, J.J., Thickstun, C.R., Jardine, C.M., Ogden, N.H., Knudby, A.J., Kulkarni, M.A. (2020) Species distribution models for the eastern blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, and the Lyme disease pathogen, Borrelia burgdorferi, in Ontario, Canada. PLOS ONE 15(9): e0238126.

  8. McKay, R., Talbot, B., Slatculescu, A., Stone, A., Kulkarni, M.A. (2020) Woodchip borders at the forest ecotone as an environmental control measure to reduce questing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 11(2): 101361.

  9. Talbot, B., Slatculescu, A.M., Thickstun, C., Koffi, J.K., Leighton, P.A., McKay, R., Kulkarni, M.A. (2019) Landscape determinants of density of blacklegged ticks, vectors of Lyme disease, at the northern edge of their distribution in Canada. Scientific Reports 9, Article number: 16652.

  10. Kulkarni, M.A., Narula, I., Slatculescu, A.M., Russell, C. (2019) Lyme disease emergence following invasion of the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, in Ontario, Canada, 2010-2016. Emerging Infectious Diseases 25(2):328-332.

  11. Kulkarni, M.A., Kryuchkov, R., Slatculescu, A.M., Thickstun, C.R., Dibernardo, A., Lindsay, L.R., Talbot, B. (2018) Ixodes scapularis tick distribution and infection rates in Ottawa, 2017. Canada Communicable Disease Report 44(10):237–42.

  12. Soucy, J-P., Slatculescu, A., Nyiraneza, C., Ogden, N., Leighton, P.A., Kerr, J.T., Kulkarni, M.A. (2018) High-resolution ecological niche modelling of Ixodes scapularis ticks based on passive surveillance data at the northern frontier of Lyme disease emergence in North America. Vector-borne & Zoonotic Diseases 18(5): 235-242.

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