New Strategies for the Diagnosis, Treatment and Risk Assessment of Parasitic Disease
A special issue of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease (ISSN 2414-6366).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 861
Special Issue Editors
Interests: schistosomiasis; leishmaniasis; parasitic diseases; immune response; coinfections
Interests: schistosomiasis; strongyloidiasis; immune response induced by helminthic infections; immunomodulatory effect of helminths; diagnosis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Parasitic diseases affect over a billion people worldwide, particularly in the poorest regions, where access to housing, healthcare and sanitation is most limited. These diseases can be transmitted via vectors or contaminating soil, water, and food. Parasitic diseases induce high mortality and morbidity, particularly in cases without proper diagnosis and treatment. In addition, some parasites can infect both humans and other animals, making it harder to control transmission. Therefore, all these aspects constitute risk factors associated with parasitic diseases and interfere with control measures.
Despite the World Health Organization's efforts to control parasitic diseases globally, significant challenges stand in the way of eliminating such diseases as a public health problem. Among them, it is important to mention the existence of drug-resistant parasites, a shortage of accurate epidemiological data on the transmission of parasitic diseases, a lack of sensitive and specific diagnostic tools for many parasitic infections, the need for new antiparasitic drugs, limited non-invasive biomarkers to measure disease severity, and, in some cases, the involvement of wild and livestock parasite reservoirs.
On this account, this Special Issue aims to gather a collection of high-quality scientific articles that present innovative approaches to address these aspects of host–parasite interactions. The submission of original basic research articles and reviews is encouraged.
Dr. Genil Camelo
Dr. Déborah Aparecida Negrão-Corrêa
Dr. Guilherme Silva Miranda
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ethnopharmacology
- epidemiological survey
- drug repositioning
- wild reservoirs
- risk factors
- host–parasite interactions
- biomarkers
- drug targets
- immune response
- one health
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