Population-Based Passive Tick Surveillance and Detection of Expanding Foci of Blacklegged Ticks Ixodes scapularis and the Lyme Disease Agent Borrelia burgdorferi in Ontario, Canada

• Mark P. Nelder ,

  * E-mail: mark.nelder@oahpp.ca

  Affiliation Enteric, Zoonotic and Vector-Borne Diseases, Communicable and Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Curtis Russell,

  Affiliation Enteric, Zoonotic and Vector-Borne Diseases, Communicable and Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• L. Robbin Lindsay,

  Affiliation Field Studies, Zoonotic Diseases and Special Pathogens, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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• Badal Dhar,

  Affiliation Analytic Services, Knowledge Services, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario

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• Samir N. Patel,

  Affiliations Public Health Ontario Laboratory - Toronto, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

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• Steven Johnson,

  Affiliation Analytic Services, Knowledge Services, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario

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• Stephen Moore,

  Affiliation Enteric, Zoonotic and Vector-Borne Diseases, Communicable and Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Erik Kristjanson,

  Affiliation Public Health Ontario Laboratory - Toronto, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario

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• Ye Li,

  Affiliations Analytic Services, Knowledge Services, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Toronto, Ontario

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• Filip Ralevski

  Affiliation Public Health Ontario Laboratory - Toronto, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario

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