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To the Editor, in November 2018, we published a Short Communication on humoral immunity induction against Salmonella in chickens. We are writing to inform errors on statistics. Our principal conclusions, however, remain unchanged.
Original publication “Induction of mucosal humoral immunity by subcutaneous injection of an oil-emulsion vaccine against Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Enteritidis in chickens” in 2018. Vol. 6, No. 4, 151–155, https://doi.org/10.14252/foodsafetyfscj.2018003, published online 20 November 2018.
The authors regret any confusion or inconvenience caused by these errors.
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In the “2-3. Vaccination” section, the vaccine name “AviPro 109 SE4” was incorrect. The name should read “AviPro 109 SE4C”.
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The results shown in Fig. 1. has been re-evaluated by use of a more adequate statistics method, Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test.
Fig. 1.
Regarding this change, the whole description of the “2-8. Statistics” section should be ;
“The significance of the differences in the numbers of SE bacteria in cecal droppings was evaluated by Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test. The significance of the differences in the SE-specific antibody levels and in the numbers of heat-killed SE adhered to Vero cells was evaluated by Student’s t-test.”
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In the legend of Fig. 2., the description of “means ± SD” was incorrect. The correct one is “means ± SE”, i.e., standard error.
In Fig. 3., “Intestinal mucosa fluid” in the x-axis was incorrect. It should read “Intestinal mucosal fluid”. Besides, “Treatment of bacterial bodies” should be shortened to “Treatment” and moved to just under “Vaccination”.
Fig. 3.
These changes do not affect the conclusions of this work.