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. 2015 Jul 6;9(7):e0003910. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003910

Correction: Prevalence and Transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi in People of Rural Communities of the High Jungle of Northern Peru

Karen A Alroy, Christine Huang, Robert H Gilman, Victor R Quispe-Machaca, Morgan A Marks, Jenny Ancca-Juarez, Miranda Hillyard, Manuela Verastegui, Gerardo Sanchez, Lilia Cabrera, Elisa Vidal, Erica M W Billig, Vitaliano A Cama, César Náquira, Caryn Bern, Michael Z Levy; Working Group on Chagas Disease in Peru
PMCID: PMC4492981  PMID: 26147779

There are several errors in this article. In Table 2, the age ranges are incorrectly listed under Community in column 1. The age ranges should be listed under Age Category in column 2. Please see the corrected Table 2 here.

Table 2. Summary of age specific seropositive study participants by community.

Community (years) Age Category N T. cruzi seropositiven (%) 95% Confidence Interval
Pindoc 75 20 (26.7%) 17.1–38.1%
<10 14 0 0–23.2%
11–20 19 0 0–17.7%
21–40 14 4 (28.6%) 8.4–58.1%
>40 28 16 (57.1%) 37.2–75.5%
Nuevo Guayaquil 63 7 (11.1%) 4.6–21.6%
<10 11 0 0–28.5%
11–20 16 1 (6.3%) 0.2–30.2%
21–40 19 2 (10.5%) 1.3–33.1%
>40 17 4 (23.5%) 6.8–49.9%
Casa Blanca 130 10 (7.7%) 3.8–13.7%
<10 24 0 0–14.3%
11–20 35 2 (5.7%) 0.70–19.2%
21–40 31 3 (9.7%) 2.0–25.8%
>40 40 5 (12.5%) 4.2–26.8%
La Esperanza 123 12 (9.8%) 5.1–16.4%
<10 32 0 0–10.9%
11–20 32 6 (18.8%) 7.2–36.4%
21–40 36 3 (8.3%) 1.8–22.5%
>40 23 3 (13.0%) 2.8–33.6%
Campo Florido 195 40 (20.5%) 15.0–26.9%
<10 74 7 (9.5%) 3.9–18.5%
11–20 37 15 (40.5%) 24.8–57.9%
21–40 42 8 (19.1%) 8.6–34.1%
>40 42 10 (23.8%) 12.1–39.5%
Rumiaco 25 2 (8.0%) 1.0–26.0%
<10 4 1 (25.0%) 0.6–80.1%
11–20 8 0 0–36.9%
21–40 7 1 (14.3%) 0.4–57.9%
>40 6 0 0–45.9%

There is an error in affiliation 4 for authors Robert H. Gilman, Victor R. Quispe-Machaca, Jenny Ancca-Juarez, Manuela Verastegui, Gerardo Sanchez, Lilia Cabrera, César Náquira, Michael Z. Levy, and Working Group on Chagas Disease in Peru. Affiliation 4 should be: Faculty of Science and Philosophy Alberto Cazorla Talleri, University Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Urbanización Ingeniería, Lima, Peru.

In Table 4, footnote 1 has a typo. T.cruzi should be italicized.

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