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Correction to: Development and validation of a risk score to assist screening for acute HIV-1 infection among men who have sex with men

The Original Article was published on 14 June 2017

Correction

After publication of the original article [1] the authors noted that the following errors had occurred:

  1. 1.

    In the section ‘Optimising the risk score’, the word sensitivity was used instead of specificity.

This has been corrected in the sentence below:

Choosing a less stringent cutoff of 1.1 would result in sensitivity of 85.9% but lower the specificity to 59.3% (Fig. 1e).

  1. 2.

    In the ‘Discussion’ section, the incorrect value was used for weight loss. Instead of β 1.9, the correct value should be β 0.9. This figure is correct in Table 3 of the original article.

This has been corrected in the sentence below:

The optimal risk score included oral thrush (β 1.7), fever (β 1.6), lymphadenopathy (β 1.5), weight loss (β 0.9), self-reported gonorrhea (β 1.6), receptive CLAI (β 1.1), and more than five sexual partners (β 0.9) (all in the preceding six months) (risk score E).

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  1. Dijkstra M, de Bree GJ, Stolte IG, Davidovich U, Sanders EJ, Prins M, Schim van der Loeff MF. Development and validation of a risk score to assist screening for acute HIV-1 infection among men who have sex with men. BMC Infect Dis. 2017;17:425. DOI:10.1186/s12879-017-2508-4.

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Dijkstra, M., de Bree, G.J., Stolte, I.G. et al. Correction to: Development and validation of a risk score to assist screening for acute HIV-1 infection among men who have sex with men. BMC Infect Dis 17, 691 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2805-y

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