Mahamed D, Boulle M, Ganga Y, Mc Arthur C, Skroch S, Oom L, Catinas O, Pillay K, Naicker M, Rampersad S, Mathonsi C, Hunter J, Wong EB, Suleman M, Sreejit G, Pym AS, Lustig G, Sigal A. 2017. Intracellular growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis after macrophage cell death leads to serial killing of host cells. eLife 6:e22028. doi: 10.7554/eLife.22028.
Published 28, January 2017
Dr Emily B Wong and Dr Moosa Suleman were accidentally left out as co-authors on the work in the originally published version of the article. Their contribution was obtaining and transferring to us bronchoalveolar lavage clinical samples that contained alveolar macrophages. These cells were utilized in Figure 7D, blue line. The corrected list of authors and their affiliations is below:
Deeqa Mahamed1,2, Mikael Boulle1,2,3, Yashica Ganga1, Chanelle Mc Arthur1,2, Steven Skroch1,2, Lance Oom1,2, Oana Catinas1, Kelly Pillay1,2, Myshnee Naicker1, Sanisha Rampersad1,2, Colisile Mathonsi1,2, Jessica Hunter1,2, Emily B Wong1,4, Moosa Suleman5,6, Gopalkrishna Sreejit1, Alexander S Pym1, Gila Lustig1, Alex Sigal1,2,3*
1KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for TB-HIV, Durban, South Africa; 2University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa; 3Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany; 4Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States; 5Department of Pulmonology and Critical Care, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa; 6Department of Pulmonology, Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, Durban, South Africa
*Corresponding author
Additional information for Dr Emily B Wong:
Funding:
Burroughs-Wellcome Fund / American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene fellowship
National Institutes of Health K08 AI118538
In addition, we accidentally omitted that Kelly Pillay was funded by a Sub-Saharan African Network for TB/HIV Research Excellence (SANTHE) fellowship.
The article has been corrected accordingly.