Parasites, Hosts and Diseases is the official journal paperless, on-line publication after Vol. 53, 2015 of The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine. Abbreviated title is ‘Parasites Hosts Dis’. It was launched in 1963. It contains original articles, case reports, brief communications, reviews or mini-reviews, book reviews, and letters to the editor on parasites of humans and animals, vectors, host-parasite relationships, zoonoses, and tropical medicine. It is published quarterly published at the last day of February, May, August, and November each year. Supplement numbers are at times published. All of the manuscripts are peer-reviewed.

Total or a part of the articles in this Journal are abstracted in Biological Abstracts, CAB International, Chemical Abstract, DOI/Crossref, Excerpta Medica (EMBASE), Google Scholar, Helminthological Abstracts, Index Medicus/Medline/PubMed/PubMed Central, KoMCI, KoreaMed, Protozoological Abstracts, Review of Medical and Veterinary Entomology, Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, Tropical Diseases Bulletin, WPRIM, and Zoological Record.

Circulation number of print copies is 500. Full text is freely available from: http://parahostdis.org/. This journal was supported by the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies Grant funded by the Korean Government (MEST).

Manuscripts should be submitted via the online Manuscript Central website (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/phd, http://parahostdis.org/). Other correspondences can be e-mailed to the Editor, Dr. Yoon Kong, Department of Molecular Parasitology, Samsung Medical Center, School of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University, 2066 Seobu-ro, Jangan-gu, Suwon 16419, Gyeonggi-do, Korea. (email: kongy@skku.edu,Tel: +82-31-299-6251 , Fax: +82-1-299-6269).