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Correction

Correction: Detection of vapN in Rhodococcus equi isolates cultured from humans

  • Laura K. Bryan,
  • Ellen Ruth Alexander,
  • Sara D. Lawhon,
  • Noah D. Cohen

Following the publication of this article [1], a reader noticed the sixth sentence of the Abstract and the fifth sentence of the first paragraph of the Discussion are incorrect. The vapN carriage of R. equi isolated from human infections from Brazil was reported during the revision process of this article [2] and an isolate from Japan has been previously identified [3]. The two sentences in question were not corrected between revisions. Please see the correct sentences here:

There is an error in the sixth sentence of the Abstract. The correct sentence is: This is the first report of vapN carriage in R. equi isolated from human infections in the United States.

There is an error in the fifth sentence of the first paragraph of the Discussion. The correct sentence is: To the authors' knowledge, this is the first confirmed report of vapN carriage in R. equi cultured from patients in the United States and from a HIV-negative, transplant patient.

References

  1. 1. Bryan LK, Alexander ER, Lawhon SD, Cohen ND (2018) Detection of vapN in Rhodococcus equi isolates cultured from humans. PLoS ONE 13(1): e0190829. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190829 pmid:29300774
  2. 2. Ribeiro MG, Lara GHB, da Silva P, Franco MMJ, de Mattos-Guaraldi AL, de Vargas APC, et al. Novel bovine-associated pVAPN plasmid type in Rhodococcus equi identified from lymph nodes of slaughtered cattle and lungs of people living with HIV/AIDS. Transbound Emerg Dis. 2017. Epub December 10, 2017. pmid:29226632
  3. 3. Anastasi E, MacArthur I, Scortti M, Alvarez S, Guiguère S, Vázquez‐Boland JA (2016). Pangenome and phylogenetic analysis of the pathogenic Actinobacterium Rhodococcus equi. Genome Biology and Evolution, 8, 3140–3148. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evw222 pmid:27638249

Citation: Bryan LK, Alexander ER, Lawhon SD, Cohen ND (2020) Correction: Detection of vapN in Rhodococcus equi isolates cultured from humans. PLoS ONE 15(6): e0235719. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235719

Published: June 30, 2020

Copyright: © 2020 Bryan 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.