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Entomology & Plant Pathology
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS 39762-9775
TEL: (662) 325-2085
FAX: (662) 325-8837
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Jerome Goddard
Associate Extension Professor
Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology
Mississipi State University
Mississippi State, MS 39762-9775
TEL: (662) 325-2085
FAX: (662) 325-8837
Email: jgoddard@entomology.msstate.edu
B.A.E., Science Education, 1979, University of Mississippi
M.S., Biological Science, 1981, University of Mississippi
Ph.D., Entomology (Medical Entomology emphasis), 1984, Mississippi State University
I am an Extension Medical and Veterinary Entomologist with Mississippi State University Extension Service. My responsibilities include: Management and control of insects and other arthropods which are harmful to humans and animals, as well as vector-borne diseases such as Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and West Nile virus. I am especially interested in the ecology and epidemiology of tick-borne diseases.
Selected Publications
Goddard, J. and R.D. deShazo. 2009. Bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) and clinical consequences of their bites. J. Amer. Med. Assoc. 301: 1358-1366.
Goddard, J. and A. Varela-Stokes. 2009. The role of the lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum, in human and animal diseases. Vet. Parasitol. 160: 1-12.
Brown, K.S., J.S. Necaise, and J. Goddard. 2008. Additions to the known U.S. distribution of Latrodectus geometricus. J. Med. Entomol. 45: 959-962.
Harrison, B.A., W. Varnado, P. Whitt, and J. Goddard. 2008. New diagnostic characters and key for females of Psorophora species in the USA, with notes on Psorophora mexicana. J. Vector Ecol. 33: 232-237.
Goddard, J., S. Upshaw, D. Held, K. Johnson, and S. Hand. 2008. Case of severe envenomation by the brown widow spider, Latrodectus geometricus. S. Med. J. 101: 1269-1270.
Goddard, J. and R.D. de Shazo. 2008. Rapid rise in bed bug populations: the need to include them in the differential diagnosis of mysterious skin rashes. S. Med. J. 101: 854-855.
Paddock, C.D., Finley, R.W., Wright, C.S., Robinson, H.N., Schrodt, B.J., Lane, C.C., Ekenna, O., Blass, M.A., Tamminga, C.L., Ohl, C.A., McLellan, S.L., Goddard, J., Holman R.C., Openshaw, J.J., Sumner, J., Zaki, S.R., and Eremeeva, M.E. 2008. Rickettsia parkeri rickettsiosis and its clinical distinction from Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Clin. Inf. Dis. 47: 1188-1196.