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- Current ISI Impact Factor: IF 2025 = 2.0
- Current volume: 73: 2026
- Special Issue: Three Decades of Latent Toxoplasmosis
- Published since 1954 – freely available!
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., Španiel F., Toman J., Hůla M., Šebánková B., Petrusová J., Novotný P., Včelák J., Kaňková Š. 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

Latifi A., Flegr J., Kaňková Š. 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.

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.

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.

Ullmann J., Flegr J., Nouzová K., Včelák J., Kaňková Š. 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.

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

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

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.
Folia Parasitologica - Most viewed articles
Results 2131 to 2160 of 3110:
Dactylogyridae and Garodactylidae (Monogenoidea) from some fishes from Mongolia
R. Ergens
Folia Parasitologica 18[3] 241-254 (1971) 
Virus-carrying ticks Ixodes ricinus in the mixed natural focus of the Central European tick-borne encephalitis virus (CETE) and Uukuniemi virus (UK)
J M Kolman, M Husová
Folia Parasitologica 18[4] 329-335 (1971) 
Two new helminth species from the fish Channa micropeltes Cuvier (Ophiocephalidae) of Malaysia
J. I. Furtado, Lau Chau-Lan
Folia Parasitologica 18[4] 365-372 (1971) 
Rhabdochona barusi sp. nov. from the fish Barilius sp. with the key to the Indian species of this genus
G. MAJUMDAR, N. C. DE
Folia Parasitologica 18[4] 381-384 (1971) 
On two species of mites associated with birds from Austria
V Černý
Folia Parasitologica 19[1] 40 (1972) 
The ecology and public health importance of Dermacentor marginatus and D. reticulatus ticks in Central Europe
J Nosek
Folia Parasitologica 19[1] 93-102 (1972) 
Chiggers parasirizing small mammals in the southern part of Yugoslavia (Acarina: Trombiculidae)
M Daniel, N Heneberg
Folia Parasitologica 19[2] 133-138 (1972) 
Some remarks on the taxonomic position of Gyrodactylus luehei (Lühe, 1909) sensu Roman-Chiriac, 1960 (Gyrodactylidae: Monogenoidea)
R Ergens
Folia Parasitologica 19[2] 182 (1972) 
The microsporidian Plistophora culicis Weiser, 1946 in different mosquito hosts
J Weiser, M Coluzzi
Folia Parasitologica 19[3] 197-202 (1972) 
Delimitation of natural foci of tick-borne encephalitis in north-eastern Moravia
J Ašmera, F Heinz
Folia Parasitologica 19[3] 263-271 (1972) 
Hymenolepis megaloon (Linstow, 1901) parasitizing Citellus citellus L. in Czechoslovakia
F Tenora, V Baruš
Folia Parasitologica 19[3] 272 (1972) 
Of techniques and ortho-iconography
P H Vercammen-Grandjean
Folia Parasitologica 19[4] 289-304 (1972) 
Overwintering of the tick Ixodes ricinus (L.) under conditions of a field experiment
M Daniel, E Honzáková, V Černý
Folia Parasitologica 19[4] 305-314 (1972) 
The 60th birthday of K. M. Ryzhikov
B Ryšavý
Folia Parasitologica 19[4] 334 (1972) 
The effect of coccidiostatics on Toxoplasma gondii infections of mice
P Bedrník
Folia Parasitologica 19[4] 355-357 (1972) 
The histology and histochemistry of the cuticle of females of Enterobius vermicularis
D Hulínská, V Hulínský
Folia Parasitologica 20[1] 5-15 (1973) 
Unusual finding of larval stages of the cestode Hydatigera taeniaeformis (Batsch, 1786) in the pheasant
B Ryšavý
Folia Parasitologica 20[1] 15 (1973) 
The yearly cycle of some helminthoses of game animals from two ecosystematically different areas
B Erhardová-Kotrlá, A Kotrlý
Folia Parasitologica 20[1] 41-48 (1973) 
Influence of natural and "e;artificial"e; mating on feeding, digestion, vitellogenesis and oviposition in ticks (Ixodoidea)
A Aeschlimann, O Grandjean
Folia Parasitologica 20[1] 67-74 (1973) 
Isolation of limax amoebae from the nasal mucosa of man
L Červa, C Serbus, V Skočil
Folia Parasitologica 20[1] 97-103 (1973) 
Konstantin Ivanovich Skriabin
J Prokopic
Folia Parasitologica 20[2] 129 (1973) 
Some remarks on the neotropical species of the genera Parapharyngodon and Batracholandros (Oxyuridae)
V Baruš
Folia Parasitologica 20[2] 131-139 (1973) 
Notes on Mehdiella microstoma (Drasche, 1884) from Testudo hermanni Gmelin, 1788
V Baruš, S Johnson
Folia Parasitologica 20[2] 139-140 (1973) 
Embedding and preparation of ultrathin and semi-ultrathin sections from ticks of family Ixodidae
B Holec, F Čiampor, J Nosek, M Labuda
Folia Parasitologica 20[2] 163-167 (1973) 
Some aspects of the overwintering of the flea Ctenophthalmus agyrtes agyrtes in field experiment
M. DANIEL
Folia Parasitologica 20[2] 168 (1973) 
On the avian Hippoboscidae (Diptera) of Cuba
F Gregor, V Černý, J de la Cruz
Folia Parasitologica 20[2] 183-187 (1973) 
The adhesive disc of Trichodinella epizootica - ultrastructure and injury to the host tiasale
J. Lom
Folia Parasitologica 20[3] 193-202 (1973) 
Dactylogyridae (Monogenoidea) from the stomach of fishes
A. V. Gussev, C. H. FERNANDO
Folia Parasitologica 20[3] 207-212 (1973) 
The finding of nematodes and acanthocephalans in Egyptian bats
V. Baruš
Folia Parasitologica 20[3] 213-221 (1973) 
On the nature of relation between the incidence of infection in host population and the mean density of parasite
K A Breyev
Folia Parasitologica 20[3] 227-234 (1973) 

