Author Correction: Periodontal pathogenic bacteria, Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans affect non-alcoholic fatty liver disease by altering gut microbiota and glucose metabolism

Correction to: Scientific Reports 10.1038/s41598-017-14260-9, published online 24 October 2017

This Article contains errors in Table 1, where incorrect values for ‘Fasting plasma glucose (mg/dL)’ and ‘L/S ratio’ are given. The correct Table 1 appears below.

Table 1.

Characteristics of the patients with NAFLD.

Variables	All patients	Males	Females
	(n = 52)	(n = 27)	(n = 25)
Age (years)	55 ± 13.8	48 ± 14.6	63 ± 7.5
Weight (kg)	68 ± 12.0	75 ± 11.0	59 ± 6.2
BMI (kg/m2)	26 ± 2.8	27 ± 3.2	26 ± 2.2
Blood platelet count (×104/μL)	22 ± 5.5	22 ± 5.3	22 ± 4.7
AST (IU/L)	26 ± 9.1	28 ± 9.5	23 ± 8.1
ALT (IU/L)	30 ± 18.2	37 ± 20.0	22 ± 12.2
ALP (IU/L)	243 ± 69.8	206 ± 63.2	284 ± 52.1
γ-GTP (IU/L)	57 ± 74.4	80 ± 95.8	31 ± 18.6
Fasting plasma glucose (mg/dL)	105 ± 14	106 ± 16	104 ± 11
HOMA-IR	2.1 ± 1.5	1.8 ± 1.1	2.4 ± 1.9
Total cholesterol (mg/dL)	219 ± 48	227 ± 46	218 ± 25
High density lipoprotein (mg/dL)	57 ± 14	54 ± 14	62 ± 12
Triglyceride (mg/dL)	145 ± 100	165 ± 128	124 ± 58
L/S ratio	1.12 ± 0.21	1.07 ± 0.26	1.17 ± 0.15

Data are shown as mean ± SD.

In addition, this Article contains a typographical error in the Methods section, under the subheading ‘Statistical analysis’ where,

“Bonferroni connection”

should read:

“Bonferroni correction”