A multi-year assessment of blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) population establishment and Lyme disease risk areas in Ottawa, Canada, 2017-2019

• Holly Burrows,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Benoit Talbot,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Roman McKay,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Andreea Slatculescu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• James Logan,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Charles Thickstun,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• L. Robbin Lindsay,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, 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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• Antonia Dibernardo,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, 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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• Jules K. Koffi,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Foodborne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada

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• Nicholas H. Ogden,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Public Health Risk Sciences Division, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada

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• Manisha A. Kulkarni

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Manisha.kulkarni@uottawa.ca

  Affiliation School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5084-4960

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