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from theBruce Trail News- Spring 1994 - Ontario Ticks and Lyme Disease a pamphlet providing an overview of Lyme disease produced by the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit - Ontario Summary of a recent article in the Ladies Home Journal
1). The status of LD risk in the Canadian environment, and the resulting incidence of LD, have been studied over the last three decades with an intensity that is possibly unique for a tick-borne disease of public health importance. Two complementary methods of tick surveillance have been ...
There are now three areas in the two counties identified on Public Health Ontario’s updated Lyme Disease Map after black-legged ticks were found through drag sampling. The areas overlap each other and are all located on the western part of the counties near the Lake Huron shore, in...
The article reports that black legged ticks, carriers of the bacteria that cause Lyme disease, have been found in the Thousand Islands region of eastern Ontario. Research scientist Dr. Robbin Lindsay of Canada's Public Health Agency expressed surprise o...
Lyme borreliosis, caused by the bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi, is an emerging vector-borne infectious disease in Canada. According to the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), by the year 2020, 80% of Canadians will live in Lyme endemic areas. An understanding of the association of Ixodes...
The risk of Lyme disease currently exists in southern parts of British Columbia and Manitoba, southern and eastern Ontario, southern Quebec and New Brunswick, and in some locations in Nova Scotia.To highlight the Public Health Agency of Canada's Action Plan on Lyme Disease, which aims to ...
Lyme disease (LD) is the most common vector-borne disease in Ontario, Canada. We describe the epidemiology and clinical manifestations of LD in Ontario and examine trends in the incidence of non-disseminated and disseminated LD. LD surve... NH Ogden,LR Lindsay,M Morshed,... 被引量: 0发表...
As these surveillance criteria are used to inform clinical and public health decisions, this under-detection will impact diagnosis and treatment of Canadian Lyme disease patients. Keywords: Lyme disease; Canada; ticks; C6 ELISA; WCS ELISA; immunoblotting; canine seroprevalence; tick surveillance; Lyme...