Correction: Linking bacterial enterotoxins and alpha defensin 5 expansion in the Crohn’s colitis: A new insight into the etiopathogenetic and differentiation triggers driving colonic inflammatory bowel disease

The eighth author’s name is spelled incorrectly. The correct name is: Hui Nian.

In the Discussion section, there is an error in the twelfth sentence of the first paragraph. The figures referenced should be Fig 2A and 2B. The correct sentence is: “Our studies on MUC6 and DEFA5 IHC staining of CC tissues show that DEFA5 is not co-expressed in UACL (Fig 2A and 2B), consistent with the report from the Norwegian research team [37,38].”

There is an error in reference 11. The correct reference is: M’Koma AESE, Seeley EH, Washington MK, Schwartz DA, Muldoon RL, Herline AJ, Wise PE, et al. Proteomic profiling of mucosal and submucosal colonic tissues yields protein signatures that differentiate the inflammatory colitides. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2011;17:875–83. pmid:20806340.