Correction
After the publication of this work [1] we found out that Table 1 was not filled in correctly in the original article. The total number of strains analyzed in the ptxP1 or the ptxP3 lineage was not shown between the brackets, leading to incompleteness of the data. The revised Table 1 is shown below.
Table 1.
Presence of regions of difference in Dutch clinical isolates from 1993 to 2004
| Region of difference | BP-number | No. of genes |
Size | ptxP1 lineage | ptxP3 lineage | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Locus: | (kb) | |||||
| RD-3 | BP0910A-BP0937 | 23 | 24.9 | 0% (17) | 0% (26) | |
| RD-5 | BP1135-BP1141 | 7 | 8.6 | 0% (17) | 0% (26) | |
| RD-6 | BP1158-BP1176 | 19 | 18.7 | 94% (17) | 100% (26) | |
| RD-27 | BP1553 | 1 | 0.8 | 82% (17) | 100% (26) | |
| RD-10 | BP1948-BP1966 | 18 | 22.7 | 100% (27) | 0% (53) | |
| RD-28 | BP2122-BP2123 | 2 | 1.7 | 94% (17) | 100% (26) | |
| RD-29 | BP2822-BP2839 | 17 | 16.9 | 94% (17) | 100% (26) | |
| RD-18 | BP3314-BP3322 | 9 | 9.4 | 94% (17) | 92% (26) | |
| RD-1* | BP0515-BP0516 | 2 | 1 | 0% (17) | 13% (32) | |
Regions of difference (RDs) are numbered according to Brinig et al [23]. RD-1* is part of RD-1 as was found by Brinig et al [23]. The percentage of strains harbouring the region and the number of strains analyzed are indicated. Size, refers to the size of the deletion.
We regret any inconvenience that the incompleteness of Table 1 in the original article might have caused.
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