Monitoring Risk: Tick and Public Participatory Surveillance in the Canadian Maritimes, 2012-2020.

Ticks are vectors of many diseases, including Lyme disease (Ld). Lyme disease is an emerging disease in Canada caused by infection with the Lyme borreliosis (Lb) members of the genus of spirochaete bacteria, of which   is regionally the most prevalent. The primary tick vector in central and eastern Canada, , is increasing in numbers and in the geographical extent of established populations.