Artificial Intelligence in Microbiology: Scope and Challenges, Volume Fifty-Five in the Methods in Microbiology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics, including Use of AI techniques in the diagnosis of infectious diseases, Potential future of AI for Microbiology applications - Benefits, challenges, and opportunities, Production and development of novel drug targets through AI, AI: beneficial or harmful for humans, The use of artificial intelligence techniques in the diagnosis of infectious diseases, Ethical and Social Issues Related to Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, and more. Other chapters cover Artificial Intelligence as a smart approach in Clinical Microbiology, Computation-assisted methods in the determination of microbial metabolites, Artificial Intelligence in drug discovery and development, AI and its role in soil microbiology and agriculture sustenance, Role of AI in fungus identification, characterization and interaction, Isolation and Characterization Techniques, Agriculture sector and artificial Intelligence, and more.