Infectious Diseases and Arthropods

With the exception of a few tropical medicine schools worldwide, current medical education programs include almost no discussion of the interface between infectious diseases and entomology. That is why this book was initially published in the first edition almost 25 years ago. The fourth edition of this valuable infectious disease entomology book updates all existing chapters with the newest scientific developments described in the medical and entomological literature, in addition to expanding existing topics from precious editions and adding new ones, including: pests involved in mechanical disease transmission; mites in clinical medicine; the newest controversies in Lyme disease; the newest malaria and dengue vaccines; highly neglected vector-borne diseases; where to go for help with arthropod questions.

Jerome Goddard, Ph.D. is a medical entomologist currently located at Mississippi State University who is known for research on a number of medically important arthropods, most notably ticks, mosquitoes, and bed bugs. Prior to coming to Mississippi State, Dr. Goddard was an Air Force medical entomologist for 3 years and then State Medical Entomologist for the Mississippi Department of Health for 20 years. After Hurricane Katrina (2005), Dr. Goddard was the health department official responsible for the mosquito and vector control program along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. He is the author of over 200 scientific articles and a medical textbook used by physicians, which won ＂Highly Commended＂ in 2003 in the British Medical Association’s Best Medical Book of the Year competition. Over the last two decades, Dr. Goddard has served as an educational resource concerning medically-important arthropods to a U.S. Congressional Committee, in various newspapers and magazines such as Reader’s Digest, and on television programs such as The Learning Channel (＂Living with Bugs＂) and the Colbert Report.