Molecular Epidemiology And Clinical Significance Of Corynebacterium Striatum Isolated From Clinical Specimens [Corrigendum]

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Molecular epidemiology and clinical significance of Corynebacterium striatum isolated from clinical specimens

Suh JW, Ju Y, Lee CK, et al. Infect Drug Resist. 2019;12:161–171.

Table 2 Microbiological Characteristics And Treatment Outcomes Of 67 Patients Whose Clinical Specimens Tested Positive For Corynebacterium striatum

Parameter	Total (n=67)	Treatment (n=20, 29.8%)	Observation (n=47, 70.1%)	P-value
Antibiotic susceptibility, n (%)
Erythromycin	67 (100)	20 (100)	47 (100)

Table 2 Microbiological Characteristics And Treatment Outcomes Of 67 Patients Whose Clinical Specimens Tested Positive For Corynebacterium striatum

Parameter	Total (n=67)	Treatment (n=20, 29.8%)	Observation (n=47, 70.1%)	P-value
Antibiotic susceptibility, n (%)
Erythromycin	13 (19.4)	3 (15.0)	10 (21.3)	0.552

Table 3 MIC₅₀ And MIC₉₀ Values And Antimicrobial Susceptibility (%) Of Clinical Isolates Of Corynebacterium striatum

Antibiotics	MIC (mg/L)			Percentage (%) Of Susceptible Isolates
	MIC50	MIC90	Range
Erythromycin	>0.5	>0.5	≤0.06 – >0.5	100

Table 3 MIC₅₀ And MIC₉₀ Values And Antimicrobial Susceptibility (%) Of Clinical Isolates Of Corynebacterium striatum

Antibiotics	MIC (mg/L)			Percentage (%) Of Susceptible Isolates
	MIC50	MIC90	Range
Erythromycin	>0.5	>0.5	≤0.06 – >0.5	19.4

On page 161, in “Abstract: Results” section, the text “Fifty-two (77.6%) isolates showed multidrug resistance, defined as resistance to ≥3 different antibiotic families” should read “Fifty-four (80.6%) isolates showed multidrug resistance, defined as resistance to ≥ 3 different antibiotic families.”

Page 164, in “Antimicrobial susceptibility” section, first sentence, “All strains were susceptible to erythromycin, vancomycin, linezolid and daptomycin (Table 3).” should read “All strains were susceptible to vancomycin, linezolid, and daptomycin (Table 3).”

Page 165, in “Antimicrobial susceptibility” section, second sentence, “Therefore, the 67 strains may be considered multidrug resistant, defined as resistance to ≥3 classes of antibiotics” should read “Therefore, the 54 strains may be considered multidrug-resistant, defined as resistance to ≥ 3 classes of antibiotics.”

Page 165: Table 2 should be corrected as follows:

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Page 165: Table 3 should be corrected as follows:

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Page 166, in “Discussion” section, second paragraph, second sentence, “However, presently, most strains (95.5%) display a multidrugresistant phenotype, although all strains are susceptible to erythromycin, vancomycin, linezolid, and daptomycin.” Should read “However, presently, most strains (80.6%) display a multidrug-resistant phenotype, although all strains are susceptible to vancomycin, linezolid, and daptomycin.”

Following a review of our data post-publication, we then realized errors in our raw data analysis. These corrections have no impact to the findings of this study. The authors apologize for these errors.