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Correction

Correction: Familial Clusters of HTLV-1-Associated Myelopathy/Tropical Spastic Paraparesis

  • Satoshi Nozuma,
  • Eiji Matsuura,
  • Toshio Matsuzaki,
  • Osamu Watanabe,
  • Ryuji Kubota,
  • Shuji Izumo,
  • Hiroshi Takashima

There is an error in the last sentence of the Results subsection of the Abstract. The correct sentence should read: HTLV-1 PVLs were lower in cases with rapid disease progression than in those with slow progression in sporadic cases.

A sentence is missing in the subsection “Clinical and laboratory findings in patients with rapid disease progression” of the Results section. The missing sentence should be added as the third to last sentence of that section and should read as: HTLV-1 PVLs of rapid progression were also lower than those of slow progression in familial cases (395 vs 984 copies), but it was not significant because of small number of subjects (3 rapid cases vs 29 slow cases).

There is an error in the subsection “Clinical characteristics of f-HAM/TSP” within the Results section. The ratio is flipped in the second sentence, which should correctly read: The sex ratio was 7 males: 33 females.

In Table 1, the values are incorrect for the “Female ratio (%)” row. Please see the corrected Table 1 here.

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Table 1. Clinical features of f-HAM/TSP cases or sporadic cases of HAM/TSP

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152954.t001

The values are incorrectly reported in Fig 2. Please see the complete, correct Fig 2 here.

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Fig 2. Age-specific proportions of rapid disease progression.

The proportion of cases with rapid disease progression tended to increase with the older age of onset.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152954.g001

Reference

  1. 1. Nozuma S, Matsuura E, Matsuzaki T, Watanabe O, Kubota R, Izumo S, et al. (2014) Familial Clusters of HTLV-1-Associated Myelopathy/Tropical Spastic Paraparesis. PLoS ONE 9(5): e86144. pmid:24802839

Citation: Nozuma S, Matsuura E, Matsuzaki T, Watanabe O, Kubota R, Izumo S, et al. (2016) Correction: Familial Clusters of HTLV-1-Associated Myelopathy/Tropical Spastic Paraparesis. PLoS ONE 11(3): e0152954. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152954

Published: March 30, 2016

Copyright: © 2016 Nozuma et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.