Epidemiology of neglected tropical diseases / Kurubaran Ganasegeran -- Neglected tropical diseases, phytochemicals, protein targets and mechanisms in drug discovery / Lalit R. Samant -- Novel bioactive lead compounds for drug discovery against neglected tropical diseases, leishmaniasis, lymphatic filariasis, trypanosomiasis (African sleeping sickness and Chagas disease) and schistosomiasis / Abeer M. El Sayed -- Herbal, nutritional and traditional remedies for giardiasis : phytochemicals as drug candidates / Samrat Bhattacharyya -- Antiprotozoal activity of phytochemicals against Entamoeba histolytica, the causative agent of amoebiasis / Goutam Jena -- Anti-leishmanial potentials of phytochemicals / Shahira Mohamed Ezzat -- Prospects of phytochemicals in the treatment of helminthiasis / Muhammad Akram -- Efficacy of phytochemicals of medicinal plants for the treatment of human echinococcosis : echinococcal disease, hydatidosis or hydatid disease drug discovery / Charles Oluwaseun Adetunji -- Filaricidal activity of phytochemicals against lymphatic filariasis / Sharangouda J. Patil -- Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) and phytochemicals in drug discovery / Muhammad Akram -- Medicinal potentials of phytochemicals as a source of drugs for the treatment of onchocerciasis (river blindness) / Chandrashekar Srinivasa -- Foodborne trematodiases and phytochemicals / Ramith Ramu -- Bacteriocidal effects of phytochemicals on Mycobacterium ulcerans, the causative agents of buruli ulcer / Alloysius Chibuike Ogodo -- Bacteriocidal effects of phytochemicals on Mycobacterium leprae, the causative agent of leprosy / Chukwuebuna Egbuna -- Medicinal plants and phytochemicals effective against chlamydia trachomatis, the causative agent of trachoma / Habibu Tijjani -- Yaws (endemic treponematoses) drug discovery from phytochemicals : an informatics protocol for drug target identification to phytochemical inhibitor screening and validation / Zarrin Basharat -- Dengue fever : a brief overview and insights into the potential applicability of phytochemicals in its management / Muhammad Akram -- Medicinal potentials of phytochemicals for the management of rabies / Chandan Shivamallu -- Roles of medicinal plants in the diagnosis and treatment of eumycetoma / Chinaza Godswill Awuchi -- Role of phytochemicals in the treatment of ectoparasitic infections : scabies and myiasis / Santwana Palai -- Malaria and recent developments in antimalarial drugs / Mithun Rudrapal -- Therapeutic potentials of phytochemicals against mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agents of tuberculosis / Alloysius Chibuike Ogodo.