Correction to: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
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In this article, Figure 5b was omitted; the complete Figure 5 should have appeared as shown below.

Fig. 5 Principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) plot of weighted (a) and unweighted (b) Unifrac measures using the 16S rRNA gene sequencing data of 48 analysed washing machine samples. Colours indicate sampling site and smell group: door seal (blue range), detergent drawer (red range), sump (green range)
The original article has been corrected.
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