Detection of municipalities at-risk of Lyme disease using passive surveillance of Ixodes scapularis as an early signal: A province-specific indicator in Canada

• Salima Gasmi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: salima.gasmi@canada.ca

  Affiliations Policy Integration and Zoonoses Division, Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada, Groupe de recherche en épidémiologie des zoonoses et santé publique, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1857-8487

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• Nicholas H. Ogden,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Groupe de recherche en épidémiologie des zoonoses et santé publique, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada, Public Health Risk Sciences Division, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

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• Marion Ripoche,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Groupe de recherche en épidémiologie des zoonoses et santé publique, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

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• Patrick A. Leighton,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Groupe de recherche en épidémiologie des zoonoses et santé publique, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

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• Robbin L. Lindsay,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Mark P. Nelder,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Enteric, Zoonotic and Vector-Borne Diseases, Communicable Diseases, Emergency Preparedness and Response, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Erin Rees,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Groupe de recherche en épidémiologie des zoonoses et santé publique, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

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• Catherine Bouchard,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Groupe de recherche en épidémiologie des zoonoses et santé publique, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada, Public Health Risk Sciences Division, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

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• Linda Vrbova,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Food-borne, Environmental & Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Richard Rusk,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Active Living, Indigenous Relations, Population & Public Health Division, Communicable Disease Control Branch, Manitoba Health, Seniors & Active Living, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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• Curtis Russell,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Enteric, Zoonotic and Vector-Borne Diseases, Communicable Diseases, Emergency Preparedness and Response, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Yann Pelcat,

  Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Groupe de recherche en épidémiologie des zoonoses et santé publique, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada, Public Health Risk Sciences Division, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

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• Samir Mechai,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Groupe de recherche en épidémiologie des zoonoses et santé publique, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada, Public Health Risk Sciences Division, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

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• Serge-Olivier Kotchi,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Groupe de recherche en épidémiologie des zoonoses et santé publique, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada, Public Health Risk Sciences Division, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4931-1489

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• Jules K. Koffi

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Policy Integration and Zoonoses Division, Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada, Groupe de recherche en épidémiologie des zoonoses et santé publique, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

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