Publications

Krishnamurthy HK., Jayaraman V., Krishna K., Wang T., Bei K., Changalath C., Matilda S., Rai AJ., Welc-Falęciak R., Pawełczyk A., et al. (2025) A customizable multiplex protein microarray for antibody testing and its application for tick-borne and other infectious diseases. Sci Rep. 15(1), 2527. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-84467-0

Firmanty, P., Doligalska, M., Krol, M., & Taciak, B. (2024). Deciphering the Dual Role of Heligmosomoides polygyrus Antigens in Macrophage Modulation and Breast Cancer Cell Growth. Veterinary sciences, 11(2), 69. https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci11020069

Pawełczyk, A., Donskow-Łysoniewska, K., Szewczak, L., Kierasińska, M., Machcińska, M., Rola, R., & Welc-Falęciak, R. (2024). Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii and Borrelia burgdorferi infections in patients with multiple sclerosis in Poland. Scientific reports, 14(1), 11015. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-61714-y

Gryczyńska, A., Polaczyk, J., & Welc-Falęciak, R. (2024). Toxoplasma gondii infection in ticks infesting migratory birds: the blackbird (Turdus merula) and the song thrush (Turdus philomelos). Experimental & applied acarology, 92(2), 233–240. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10493-023-00878-0

Wymazał, A., Nowak, S., Mysłajek, R. W., Bajer, A., Welc-Falęciak, R., Szewczyk, M., Kwiatkowska, I., Stępniak, K. M., Figura, M., & Kloch, A. (2024). Tick-borne infections in wolves from an expanding population in Eastern Europe. Ticks and tick-borne diseases, 15(1), 102272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2023.102272

Koczwarska, J., Nowakowska, J., Polaczyk, J., & Welc-Falęciak, R. (2024). A seven-legged tick – anomalous Ixodes ricinus female (Acari: Ixodidae) from Poland. Annals of agricultural and environmental medicine, 31(2), 294–297. https://doi.org/10.26444/aaem/172533

Jermakow, N., Skarżyńska, W., Lewandowska, K., Kiernozek, E., Goździk, K., Mietelska-Porowska, A., Drela, N., Wojda, U., & Doligalska, M. (2023). Modulation of LPS-Induced Neurodegeneration by Intestinal Helminth Infection in Ageing Mice. International journal of molecular sciences, 24(18), 13994. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms241813994

Kloch, A., Mierzejewska, E. J., Welc-Falęciak, R., Bajer, A., & Biedrzycka, A. (2023). Cytokine gene polymorphism and parasite susceptibility in free-living rodents: Importance of non-coding variants. PloS one, 18(1), e0258009. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258009

Perlejewski, K., Radkowski, M., Pawełczyk, A., Rydzanicz, M., Dzieciątkowski, T., Makowiecki, M., Paciorek, M., Welc-Falęciak, R., Horban, A., & Laskus, T. (2023). Enteroviral central nervous system infections in patients with Lyme neuroborreliosis. Ticks and tick-borne diseases, 14(6), 102253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2023.102253

Maruszewska-Cheruiyot, M., Szewczak, L., Krawczak-Wójcik, K., Kierasińska, M., Stear, M., & Donskow-Łysoniewska, K. (2023). The Impact of Intestinal Inflammation on Nematode’s Excretory-Secretory Proteome. International journal of molecular sciences, 24(18), 14127. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms241814127

Koczwarska, J., Pawełczyk, A., Dunaj-Małyszko, J., Polaczyk, J., & Welc-Falęciak, R. (2023). Rickettsia species in Dermacentor reticulatus ticks feeding on human skin and clinical manifestations of tick-borne infections after tick bite. Scientific reports, 13(1), 9930. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37059-3

Dabrowska, M., Kępczyńska, A., Goździk, K., Całka-Kresa, M., Skoneczny, M., Zieliński, Z., Doligalska, M., & Sikora, E. (2022). Novel Role of Mammalian Cell Senescence-Sustenance of Muscle Larvae of Trichinella spp. Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity, 2022, 1799839. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/1799839

Pawełczyk, A., Bednarska, M., Caraballo Cortés, K., Glamkowska-Sady, M., Kowalska, J., Uszyńska-Kałuża, B., Radkowski, M., & Welc-Falęciak, R. (2022). Seronegative Infection with Toxoplasma gondii in Asymptomatic Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1)-Infected Patients and in Blood Donors. Journal of clinical medicine, 11(3), 638. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11030638

Berus, S. M., Adamczyk-Popławska, M., Goździk, K., Przedpełska, G., Szymborski, T. R., Stepanenko, Y., & Kamińska, A. (2022). SERS-PLSR Analysis of Vaginal Microflora: Towards the Spectral Library of Microorganisms. International journal of molecular sciences, 23(20), 12576. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms232012576

Doligalska, M., Jóźwicka, K., Szewczak, L., Nowakowska, J., Brodaczewska, K., Goździk, K., Pączkowski, C., & Szakiel, A. (2021). Calendula officinalis Triterpenoid Saponins Impact the Immune Recognition of Proteins in Parasitic Nematodes. Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland), 10(3), 296. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10030296

Pawełczyk, A., Bednarska, M., Hamera, A., Religa, E., Poryszewska, M., Mierzejewska, E. J., & Welc-Falęciak, R. (2021). Long-term study of Borrelia and Babesia prevalence and co-infection in Ixodes ricinus and Dermacentor recticulatus ticks removed from humans in Poland, 2016-2019. Parasites & vectors, 14(1), 348. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-021-04849-5

Oloś G, Nowakowska J, Welc-Falęciak R. (2021). Setaria tundra, what do we know, what is still to be discovered?. Annals of parasitology, 67(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.17420/ap6701.306

Dwużnik-Szarek, D., Mierzejewska, E. J., Rodo, A., Goździk, K., Behnke-Borowczyk, J., Kiewra, D., Kartawik, N., & Bajer, A. (2021). Monitoring the expansion of Dermacentor reticulatus and occurrence of canine babesiosis in Poland in 2016-2018. Parasites & vectors, 14(1), 267. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-021-04758-7

Cabaj, W., Bień-Kalinowska, J., Goździk, K., Basałaj, K., Steiner-Bogdaszewska, Ż., Bogdaszewski, M., & Moskwa, B. (2020). Molecular identification of sarcocysts from tissue of fallow deer (Dama dama) farmed in the open pasture system based on ssu rRNA gene. Acta parasitologica, 65(2), 354–360. https://doi.org/10.2478/s11686-019-00159-0

Pawełczyk, A., Bednarska, M., Kowalska, J. D., Uszyńska-Kałuża, B., Radkowski, M., & Welc-Falęciak, R. (2019). Seroprevalence of six pathogens transmitted by the Ixodes ricinus ticks in asymptomatic individuals with HIV infection and in blood donors. Scientific reports, 9(1), 2117. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-38755-9

Kowalec, M., Szewczyk, T., Welc-Falęciak, R., Siński, E., Karbowiak, G., & Bajer, A. (2019). Rickettsiales Occurrence and co-occurrence in Ixodes ricinus ticks in natural and urban areas. Microbial ecology, 77(4), 890–904. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-018-1269-y

Oloś, G., Nowakowska, J., Rojewska, S., & Welc-Falęciak, R. (2019). New findings of Setaria tundra and Setaria cervi in the red deer (Cervus elaphus) in Poland. Parasitology, 146(10), 1333–1337. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182019000568

Bednarska, M., Jankowska, I., Pawelas, A., Piwczyńska, K., Bajer, A., Wolska-Kuśnierz, B., Wielopolska, M., & Welc-Falęciak, R. (2018). Prevalence of Cryptosporidium, Blastocystis, and other opportunistic infections in patients with primary and acquired immunodeficiency. Parasitology research, 117(9), 2869–2879. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-018-5976-6

Welc-Falęciak, R., Bednarska, M., Szatan, M., & Pawełczyk, A. (2018). Tick-Borne Pathogens in Individuals with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) Infection. Postępy Mikrobiologii-Advancements of Microbiology, 57(3), 251-259. https://doi.org/10.21307/PM-2018.57.3.251

Welc-Falęciak, R., Kowalska, J. D., Bednarska, M., Szatan, M., & Pawełczyk, A. (2018). Molecular identification of tick-borne pathogens in asymptomatic individuals with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection: a retrospective study. BMC infectious diseases, 18(1), 227. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-018-3140-7

Pawełczyk, A., Welc-Falęciak, R., & Bajer, A. (2018). Selected aspects of helminth infections Schistosoma sp., Ascaris lumbricoides, Strongyloides stercoralis in individuals diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Przeglad epidemiologiczny, 72(3), 349–361. https://doi.org/10.32394/pe.72.3.11

Kloch, A., Wenzel, M. A., Laetsch, D. R., Michalski, O., Bajer, A., Behnke, J. M., Welc-Falęciak, R., & Piertney, S. B. (2018). Signatures of balancing selection in toll-like receptor (TLRs) genes – novel insights from a free-living rodent. Scientific reports, 8(1), 8361. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-26672-2

Tołkacz, K., Bednarska, M., Alsarraf, M., Dwużnik, D., Grzybek, M., Welc-Falęciak, R., Behnke, J. M., & Bajer, A. (2017). Prevalence, genetic identity and vertical transmission of Babesia microti in three naturally infected species of vole, Microtus spp. (Cricetidae). Parasites & vectors, 10(1), 66. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-017-2007-x

Kowalec, M., Szewczyk, T., Welc-Falęciak, R., Siński, E., Karbowiak, G., & Bajer, A. (2017). Ticks and the city – are there any differences between city parks and natural forests in terms of tick abundance and prevalence of spirochaetes?. Parasites & vectors, 10(1), 573. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-017-2391-2

Alsarraf, M., Mohallal, E. M. E., Mierzejewska, E. J., Behnke-Borowczyk, J., Welc-Falęciak, R., Bednarska, M., Dziewit, L., Zalat, S., Gilbert, F., Behnke, J. M., & Bajer, A. (2017). Description of Candidatus Bartonella fadhilae n. sp. and Candidatus Bartonella sanaae n. sp. (Bartonellaceae) from Dipodillus dasyurus and Sekeetamys calurus (Gerbillinae) from the Sinai Massif (Egypt). Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.), 17(7), 483–494. https://doi.org/10.1089/vbz.2016.2093

Moskwa, B., Bień, J., Kornacka, A., Cybulska, A., Goździk, K., Krzysiak, M. K., Reiterova, K., & Cabaj, W. (2017). First Toxoplasma gondii isolate from an aborted foetus of European bison (Bison bonasus bonasus L.). Parasitology research, 116(9), 2457–2461. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-017-5549-0