{"doi":"10.3389/fpara.2022.963671","title":"Therapeutic and Diagnostic Innovation for Parasitology: Grand Challenges","abstract":"Parasites exact a very heavy burden on the health of human and animal populations. In humans this problem is more severe in developing countries In animals, parasites affect productivity and raise welfare issues. In humans the parasites include: protozoa like Plasmodium falciparum that cause malaria; filarial nematode parasites like Onchocerca volvulus that cause river blindness that are transmitted by biting insects; soiltransmitted helminths like Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus; and a variety of insect ectoparasites (https://www.medicalnewstoday. com/articles/human-parasites#types-of-parasites). Similar parasite species are seen in animals where they have a negative impact on animal health, welfare and food production Many life cycle stages of parasites are impacted by the environment during transmission or development and there is a real concern about how the climate will affect parasite populations as it continues to warm Given the massive and world-wide health problems that parasitic diseases produce and the increasing movement of human populations from developing countries to developed countries, it is imperative for our future wellbeing that we advance techniques for the rapid diagnosis and treatments of the many parasitic diseases.","journal":"Frontiers in Parasitology","year":2022,"id":309629,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9632,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":246450,"name":"Richard J. Martin","orcid":"0000-0003-2422-1847","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":12,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T00:33:11.579763Z","pmid":"37293539","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}