A5072377379- Vector-borne infectious diseases
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Insect Pest Control Strategies
- Bartonella species infections research
- Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
Université de Montréal
2021-2025
Public Health Agency of Canada
2024-2025
Ixodes scapularis ticks are expanding their range in parts of northeastern North America, bringing with them pathogens public health concern. While rodents like the white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus , considered primary reservoir many emerging tick-borne pathogens, contribution birds, as alternative hosts and reservoirs, to local transmission cycles has not yet been firmly established. From 2016 2018, we collected host-seeking examined rodent bird for at 48 sites a park where...
Abstract Deer keds (Lipoptena cervi), an introduced European species, are expanding their geographic range in North America. We document first recorded presence Québec, Canada, map distribution, and highlight the detection of pathogens potential public health relevance. In Estrie region southern 47 deer (L. cervi) were collected from 14 (5.5%) 254 harvested white-tailed (Odocoileus virginianus). Borrelia spp. Anaplasma phagocytophilum detected body 1/44 8/44 L. cervi specimens, respectively....
Lyme disease (LD) risk is emerging rapidly in Canada due to range expansion of its tick vectors, accelerated by climate change. The contracting LD varies geographically variability ecological characteristics that determine the hazard (the densities infected host-seeking ticks) and vulnerability human population determined their knowledge adoption preventive behaviors. Risk maps are commonly used support public health decision-making on disease, but ability adopt behaviors rarely taken into...
Lyme disease (LD) is emerging in Canada owing to the range expansion of tick vector
Infectious diseases are emerging across temperate regions of the world, and, for some, links have been made between landscapes and emergence dynamics. For tick-borne diseases, public parks may be important exposure sites people living in urbanized areas North America Europe. In most cases, we know more about ecological processes that determine hazard posed by ticks as disease vectors than do how human population varies urban natural parks.
Lyme disease (LD) is a tick-borne which has been emerging in temperate areas North America, Europe, and Asia. In Quebec, Canada, the number of human LD cases increasing rapidly thus surveillance risk public health priority. this study, we aimed to evaluate ability active sentinel track spatiotemporal trends risk. Using drag flannel data from 2015-2019, calculated density nymphal ticks (DON), an index enzootic hazard, across study region (southern Quebec). A Poisson regression model was used...
Tick-borne diseases are an emerging threat to public health throughout the temperate world, leading a growing field of research aimed at developing and testing intervention strategies for reducing human-tick encounters or prevalence infection in ticks. Various wide-spectrum chemical acaricides have proven effective controlling tick populations, but many these potential deleterious side-effects on environment. In addition acaricides, certain compounds such as diatomaceous earth been shown...