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- Current volume: 73: 2026
- Special Issue: Three Decades of Latent Toxoplasmosis
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International journal that covers all branches of animal parasitology, including morphology, taxonomy, biology, biochemistry, physiology, immunology and molecular biology of parasites, host-parasite relationships and parasite evolution.
Special Issue: Three Decades of Latent Toxoplasmosis

Flegr J., Ullmann J., ©paniel F., Toman J., Hůla M., ©ebánková B., Petrusová J., Novotný P., Včelák J., Kaňková ©. 2026: Does latent Toxoplasma infection mimic the immune profile of schizophrenia? Sex-specific cytokine and brain-marker alterations suggest partial overlap. Special Issue on Toxoplasmosis. Folia Parasitol. 73: 006

Postolache T.T. 2025: Toxoplasma gondii and suicidal behaviour: discovery, cross-diagnostic confirmation and pathway exploration. Special Issue on Toxoplasmosis. Folia Parasitol. 72: 025.

Webster J.P. 2025: Who makes the decisions? Uncovering the evolutionary implications and clinical applications of Toxoplasma gondii’s Fatal Feline Attraction. Special Issue on Toxoplasmosis. Folia Parasitol. 72: 016

Catchpole A., Zabriskie B.N., Embley B., Kharazi H., Clarke R., Templeton G., Hunt C., Gale S.D., Hedges D.W. 2025: Association between type-2 diabetes and Toxoplasma gondii seropositivity: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Special Issue on Toxoplasmosis. Folia Parasitol. 72: 024.

Flegr J. 2025: Thirty years of studying latent toxoplasmosis: behavioural, physiological, and health insights: description of a struggle. Special Issue on Toxoplasmosis. Folia Parasitol. 72: 005.

Postolache T.T., Duncan E., Yen P., Potocki E., Barnhart M., Federline A., Massa N., Dagdag A., Joseph J., Wadhawan A., Capan C., Forton C., Lowry C.A., Ortmeyer H.K., Brenner L.A. 2025: Toxoplasma gondii, suicidal behavior and suicide risk factors in US Veterans enrolled in mental health treatment. Special Issue on Toxoplasmosis. Folia Parasitol. 72: 002.

Ullmann J., Flegr J., Nouzová K., Včelák J., Kaňková ©. 2025: Chronic inflammation in pregnant women with latent toxoplasmosis and explanation of discordant results of serological tests for toxoplasmosis. Special Issue on Toxoplasmosis. Folia Parasitol. 72: 021.

Vyas A. 2024: Nuts and bolts of the behavioural manipulation by Toxoplasma gondii. Special Issue on Toxoplasmosis. Folia Parasitol. 71: 017.

Latifi A., Flegr J., Kaňková ©. 2025: Re-assessing host manipulation in Toxoplasma: the underexplored role of sexual transmission – evidence, mechanisms, implications. Special Issue on Toxoplasmosis. Folia Parasitol. 72: 015.

Torrey E.F. 2024: The linking of toxoplasmosis and schizophrenia. Folia Parasitol. 71: 016.

Tautanova A., Kiyan V., Dusmagambetov M., Almysheva T.A., Dusmagambetova A. 2026: Three decades of research on molecular genetic characteristics of Echinococcus spp.: a bibliometric study. Folia Parasitol. 73: 001.
Folia Parasitologica - Most viewed articles
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On the developmental cycle of the common tick (Ixodes ricinus L.) in the North-Moravian natural focus of tick-borne encephalitis
J. Chmela
Folia Parasitologica 16[4] 313-319 (1969) 
The amphibian genus of amphistomes, Pseudochiorchis Yamaguti, 1958, recovered from chelonians at Lucknow, and its synonymity with the genus Kachugotrema Dwivedi, 1967
R. S. TANDON
Folia Parasitologica 17[4] 293-297 (1970) 
International symposium on tick-borne arboviruses (excluding group B)
B. Rosický
Folia Parasitologica 17[4] 325-326 (1970) 
Stratification of engorged Ixodes ricinus larvae overwintering in soil
F Dusbábek, M Daniel, V Černý
Folia Parasitologica 18[3] 261-266 (1971) 
Solitary liver granulomas in man caused by Capillaria hepatica (Bancroft, 1893) in Czechoslovakia
J ©lais, J ©těrba
Folia Parasitologica 19[4] 373-374 (1972) 
On the histochemistry of the tegument of Cysticercus bovis
Z ®ďárská
Folia Parasitologica 20[4] 307-318 (1973) 
Morphogenesis and viability of larvae in the eggs of Enterobius vermicularis
D Hulínská
Folia Parasitologica 21[3] 225-232 (1974) 
Differences between Echinostoma revolutum (Frölich) and Echinostoma liei Jeyarasasingam, Heyneman, Lim, and Mansour
K. J. LIE, D. HEYNEMAN, U. JEYARASASINGAM, H. K. LIM
Folia Parasitologica 22[1] 20 (1975) 
Academician B. E. Bykhovsky is dead
B Rosický
Folia Parasitologica 22[1] 96 (1975) 
Parasitische Gewebeprotozoen der wildlebenden Kleinsäuger in der Tschechoslowakei
Z. ©EBEK
Folia Parasitologica 22[2] 111-124 (1975) 
Two new species of the genus Gyrodactylus Nordman, 1832 (Monogenoidea) from fishes of the river Amur
R. ERGENS, S. S. YUKHIMENKO
Folia Parasitologica 22[2] 177-179 (1975) 
Distribution of Sarcocystis (Protozoa: Sporozoa) in vertebrates
V N Kalyakin, D N Zasukhin
Folia Parasitologica 22[4] 289-307 (1975) 
Book reviews, Notes and News
Folia Parasitologica 22[4] X (1975)
Variability of hard parts of opisthaptor of two species of Gyrodactylus Nordmann, 1832 (Monogenoidea) from Phoxinus phoxinus (L.)
R. ERGENS
Folia Parasitologica 23[2] 111-126 (1976) 
Development and survival of the tick Hyalomma dromedarii Koch under laboratory conditions
J. Bouchalová, E. Honzáková, M. Daniel
Folia Parasitologica 24[1] 55-62 (1977) 
Destruction of Ascaris suum eggs during their feeding to various species of beetles
S. BÍLÝ, J. PROKOPIČ
Folia Parasitologica 24[4] 343-345 (1977) 
Ticks of small mammals from the Hindu Kush (Afghanistan) . . .
V. ČERNÝ, M. DANIEL
Folia Parasitologica 24[4] 367-371 (1977) 
On the topical problems of species in general and in relation to helminths
J. K. MACKO
Folia Parasitologica 25[1] 23-30 (1978) 
Isolation of Bhanja virus from ticks of the genus Haemaphysalis in southeast Bulgaria and presence of antibodies in pastured sheep
P. PAVLOV, B. ROSICKÝ, Z. HUBÁLEK, M. DANIEL, V. BÁRDO©, J. MINÁŘ, Z. JUŘICOVÁ
Folia Parasitologica 25[1] 67-73 (1978) 
On feasibility of applying density gradient centrifugation for separation of different stages of Toxoplasma gondii
K. N. MASIHI, J. JÍRA
Folia Parasitologica 26[1] 9-13 (1979) 
Two new species of the genus Gyrodactylus Nordmann, 1832 (Gyrodactylidae: Monogenoidea) from Afghan fishes
R. ERGENS
Folia Parasitologica 26[1] 77-79 (1979) 
Methods and terminology in the study of monogeneans
A. V. GUSSEV
Folia Parasitologica 26[2] 103-109 (1979) 
Tissue reaction to Cysticercus bovis in the lung of artificially infected cattle
J. ©TĚRBA, I. DYKOVÁ, B. MACHNICKA
Folia Parasitologica 26[2] 125-128 (1979) 
Some new data on the morphology and development of the nematode Cystidicoloides tenuissima (Zeder, 1800)
N. C. DE, F. MORAVEC
Folia Parasitologica 26[3] 231-237 (1979) 
Laboratory demonstration of transovarial transmission of «ahyňa virus in Aedes vexans and the role of this mechanism in overwintering of this arbovirus
V. DANIELOVÁ, J. RYBA
Folia Parasitologica 26[4] 361-366 (1979) 
Scanning electron microscopic study of the morphology of Ascaris suum Goeze, 1782
J. PROKOPIČ
Folia Parasitologica 26[4] 377-379 (1979) 
Protozoan parasites of fishes from Bulgaria I. Glugea luciopercae and the description of three new Trichodina species
G. GRUPCHEVA, J. LOM
Folia Parasitologica 27[4] 289-294 (1980) 
Fish invading dinoflagellates: a synopsis of existing and newly proposed genera
J Lom
Folia Parasitologica 28[1] 3-11 (1981) 
Peculiarities of the ultrastructure of Hymenolepis horrida larvae from different definitive hosts
G. P. KRASNOSHCHEKOV, L. T. PLUZHNIKOV, L. V. SMIRNOVA
Folia Parasitologica 28[2] 147-154 (1981) 
Morphology and cytochemistry of the adult tapeworm Multiceps endothoracicus with emphasis on the scolex
D. HULÍNSKÁ, V. I. LAVROV
Folia Parasitologica 28[3] 227-234 (1981) 

