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Artificial intelligence, parasites, and parasitic diseases

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Edited by: Filipe Dantas-Torres, MV, MSc, DSc, PhD, FRES, EBVS Veterinary Specialist in Parasitology, Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil


Submission status: Open | Submission Deadline: Ongoing



As discussed in this editorial by the Chief Editor of Parasites and Vectors, Filipe Dantas-Torres, this collection is dedicated to articles reporting the use of AI in parasitology research. We particularly welcome articles dealing with parasitic disease diagnosis, parasite and vector identification as well as those reporting the prospection of drugs and vaccine candidates. 

This collection will serve as a platform for authors to publish their research that employs AI and deep learning methods for solving research questions in the fields of parasitology and tropical medicine. We particularly welcome articles dealing with parasitic disease diagnosis, parasite and vector identification as well as those reporting the prospection of drugs and vaccine candidates.

About the collection

As discussed in this editorial by Dantas-Torres, this collection is dedicated to articles reporting the use of AI in parasitology research. We particularly welcome articles dealing with parasitic disease diagnosis, parasite and vector identification as well as those reporting the prospection of drugs and vaccine candidates. 

This collection will serve as a platform for authors to publish their research that employs AI and deep learning methods for solving research questions in the fields of parasitology and tropical medicine.

  1. Mosquito-borne diseases cause millions of deaths each year and are increasingly spreading from tropical and subtropical regions into temperate zones, posing significant public health risks. In the Basque Count...

    Authors: Vanessa Steindorf, Hamna Mariyam K. B., Nico Stollenwerk, Aitor Cevidanes, Jesús F. Barandika, Patricia Vazquez, Ana L. García-Pérez and Maíra Aguiar
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2025 18:109
    Content type: Research Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Parasites & Vectors 2025 18:120

  2. Capillariid nematode eggs have been reported in archaeological material in both the New and the Old World, mainly in Europe and South America. They have been found in various types of samples, as coprolites, s...

    Authors: Victor Hugo Borba, Ludmila Gurjão, Coralie Martin, Benjamin Dufour, Matthieu Le Bailly and Alena Mayo Iñiguez
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2025 18:104
    Content type: Research Published on:

  3. The sterile alpha and HEAT/Armadillo motif (SARM) is the fifth Toll-like receptor (TLR) adaptor protein containing the Toll/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) domain, which is highly enriched in the brain. Toxoplasma g...

    Authors: Shumin Gao, Min Gao, Huanhui Du, Lingyu Li, Xudian An, Yongyu Shi, Xiaoyan Wang, Hua Cong, Bing Han, Chunxue Zhou and Huaiyu Zhou
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2025 18:103
    Content type: Research Published on:

  4. Hemozoin is considered a waste byproduct of heme detoxification following hemoglobin digestion; consequently, the biological functions of hemozoin in hemozoin-producing organisms have often been overlooked. Ho...

    Authors: Jun Sun, Chuantao Fang, Xixi Qin, Wenwen Si, Fei Wang, Yanna Li and Xiaoli Yan
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2025 18:83
    Content type: Research Published on:

  5. Trichinella spiralis drug development and control need an objective high throughput system to assess first stage larvae (L1) viability. YOLOv5 is an image recognition tool easily trained to count muscular first s...

    Authors: Javier Sánchez-Montejo, Miguel Marín, María Alejandra Villamizar-Monsalve, María del Carmen Vieira, Belén Vicente, Rafael Peláez, Julio López-Abán and Antonio Muro
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2025 18:36
    Content type: Research Published on:

  6. Amebiasis represents a significant global health concern. This is especially evident in developing countries, where infections are more common. The primary diagnostic method in laboratories involves the micros...

    Authors: Enas Al-khlifeh, Ahmad S. Tarawneh, Khalid Almohammadi, Malek Alrashidi, Ramadan Hassanat and Ahmad B. Hassanat
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2025 18:33
    Content type: Research Published on:

  7. Dengue fever poses a significant global public health concern, necessitating the monitoring of Aedes mosquito population density. These mosquitoes serve as the disease vectors, making their surveillance crucial f...

    Authors: Minghao Wang, Yibin Zhou, Shenjun Yao, Jianping Wu, Minhui Zhu, Linjuan Dong and Dunjia Wang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2024 17:511
    Content type: Research Published on:

  8. Current methods for obtaining fecal egg counts in horses are often inaccurate and variable depending on the analyst’s skill and experience. Automated digital scanning of fecal sample slides integrated with ana...

    Authors: Ashley Steuer, Jason Fritzler, SaraBeth Boggan, Ian Daniel, Bobby Cowles, Cory Penn, Richard Goldstein and Dan Lin
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2024 17:465
    Content type: Research Published on:

  10. Mosquito-borne diseases are a major global health threat. Traditional morphological or molecular methods for identifying mosquito species often require specialized expertise or expensive laboratory equipment. ...

    Authors: Kristopher Nolte, Felix Gregor Sauer, Jan Baumbach, Philip Kollmannsberger, Christian Lins and Renke Lühken
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2024 17:372
    Content type: Brief Report Published on:

  11. Techniques for diagnosing intestinal parasites need technological advancements in the preanalytical (collection/processing) and analytical (detection) stages. The dissolved air flotation (DAF) technique effect...

    Authors: Felipe Augusto Soares, Celso Tetsuo Nagase Suzuki, Edvaldo Sabadini, Alexandre Xavier Falcão, Amanda de Oliveira Baccin, Leyva Cecília Vieira de Melo and Jancarlo Ferreira Gomes
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2024 17:368
    Content type: Research Published on:

  12. Identifying mosquito vectors is crucial for controlling diseases. Automated identification studies using the convolutional neural network (CNN) have been conducted for some urban mosquito vectors but not yet f...

    Authors: Taís Oliveira de Araújo, Vinicius Lima de Miranda and Rodrigo Gurgel-Gonçalves
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2024 17:329
    Content type: Research Published on:

  13. Mosquitoes are carriers of tropical diseases, thus demanding a comprehensive understanding of their behaviour to devise effective disease control strategies. In this article we show that machine learning can p...

    Authors: Yasser Mehmood Qureshi, Vitaly Voloshin, Catherine Elizabeth Towers, James Anthony Covington and David Peter Towers
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2024 17:282
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Parasites & Vectors 2024 17:326

  14. Malaria is a serious public health concern worldwide. Early and accurate diagnosis is essential for controlling the disease’s spread and avoiding severe health complications. Manual examination of blood smear ...

    Authors: Dhevisha Sukumarran, Khairunnisa Hasikin, Anis Salwa Mohd Khairuddin, Romano Ngui, Wan Yusoff Wan Sulaiman, Indra Vythilingam and Paul Cliff Simon Divis
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2024 17:188
    Content type: Research Published on:

  15. Accurately determining the age and survival probabilities of adult mosquitoes is crucial for understanding parasite transmission, evaluating the effectiveness of control interventions and assessing disease ris...

    Authors: Emmanuel P. Mwanga, Doreen J. Siria, Issa H. Mshani, Sophia H. Mwinyi, Said Abbasi, Mario Gonzalez Jimenez, Klaas Wynne, Francesco Baldini, Simon A. Babayan and Fredros O. Okumu
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2024 17:143
    Content type: Research Published on:

  16. The large amphibious freshwater apple snail is an important invasive species in China, but there is currently no method available for their surveillance. The development and popularization of smartphones provi...

    Authors: Qiang Zhang, Xin Ding, Yingshu Zhang, Yougui Yang, Fanzhen Mao, Bixian Ni, Yaobao Liu, Richard Culleton, Yang Dai and Jun Cao
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2024 17:78
    Content type: Research Published on:

  17. Intestinal parasitic infections can harm health by causing malnutrition, anemia, impaired growth and cognitive development, and alterations in microbiota composition and immune responses. Therefore, it is cruc...

    Authors: Sudarat Boonyong, Saowalak Hunnangkul, Sirirat Vijit, Suphaluck Wattano, Parwin Tantayapirak, Sumas Loymek and Sirichit Wongkamchai
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2024 17:13
    Content type: Research Published on:

  18. Mosquito-borne diseases exert a huge impact on both animal and human populations, posing substantial health risks. The behavioural and fitness traits of mosquitoes, such as locomotion and fecundity, are crucia...

    Authors: Nouman Javed, Adam J. López-Denman, Prasad N. Paradkar and Asim Bhatti
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2023 16:341
    Content type: Research Published on:

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Please read our submission guidelines before submitting. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Artificial intelligence, parasites and parasitic diseases" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editor has no competing interests with the submissions which are handled through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Editor has competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.