The second affiliation for the first two authors (Tetiana A. Kuzmina and Yaroslav Syrota) was omitted in the published version of the article.

Missing Affiliation is “2” - Institute of Parasitology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Hlinkova 3, Košice, Slovakia.

During the submission process, peer review, and initial pre-production stages, both authors were correctly assigned two affiliations (Tetiana A Kuzmina^1,2 and Yaroslav Syrota^1,2*). While working with the proofs, the authors checked all the affiliations on the pre-production site. However, in the final published version, the superscript “2” was dropped.

This correction is critically important. A substantial part of the study outlined in this article was supported by a project of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (funded by the EU NextGenerationEU through the Recovery and Resilience Plan for Slovakia – Scholarships for excellent researchers threatened by the war conflict in Ukraine), as referenced in the Financial support section of the paper. Adding the second affiliation is critical to fulfilling the authors’ formal obligations to the funding body and preventing administrative compliance issues.

The authors sincerely apologize for not identifying this oversight earlier.

The original version of the article has restored the affiliation for both authors (T.A. Kuzmina^1,2 and Y. Syrota^1,2).