AUTHOR'S CORRECTION
Volume 72, no. 9, p. 5308–5314, 2004. The title should appear as shown above.
We have become aware of the fact that our laboratory over the last several years has wrongly identified a bacterium that we have referred to as Lactobacillus reuteri in a number of publications. Indeed, we can now verify that this bacterium is Lactobacillus rhamnosus in all our published experiments, identified by bar coding and DNA fingerprinting. We asked an independent laboratory, the Bacteria Collection Laboratory for Microbiology, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium, to identify the bacterium, and they have confirmed it to be L. rhamnosus by DNA fingerprinting using the amplified fragment length polymorphism technique. Furthermore, they were unable to assign it to any of the seven intraspecies clusters previously reported among 118 strains of this species from around the world (M. Vancanneyt et al., Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72:5376–5383, 2006). Future experiments by our group will refer to this bacterium as L. rhamnosus (JB-1). We sincerely apologize to all our colleagues for any difficulties arising from this unfortunate error.