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Correction to: The impact of drug resistance on the risk of tuberculosis infection and disease in child household contacts: a cross sectional study

BMC Infectious Diseases volume 17, Article number: 713 (2017) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 29 August 2017

Correction

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

  • The name of the author H. Simon Schaaf had been incorrectly tagged as Simon H. Schaaf. This has been corrected in the author list above.

  • The first p value below Table 1 is listed as p < 0.011, however it should be p < 0.01. An updated version of this table is included with this Correction.

Table 1 Baseline characteristics in children with household multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and drug-susceptible tuberculosis exposure
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  1. Golla V, Snow K, Mandalakas AM, Schaaf HS, Du Preez K, Hesseling AC, Seddon JA. The impact of drug resistance on the risk of tuberculosis infection and disease in child household contacts: a cross sectional study. BMC Infect Dis. 2017;17:593. doi:10.1186/s12879-017-2668-2.

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  1. Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Box 241, Cape Town, PO, 8000, South Africa

    Vera Golla, H. Simon Schaaf, Karen Du Preez, Anneke C. Hesseling & James A. Seddon

  2. Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Kathryn Snow

  3. Global TB Program, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

    Anna M. Mandalakas

  4. Centre for International Child Health, Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place W2 1PG, London, UK

    James A. Seddon

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Correspondence to Anneke C. Hesseling or James A. Seddon.

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Vera Golla and Kathryn Snow are Joint first authors.

Anneke C. Hesseling and James A. Seddon are Joint last authors.

The original article can be found online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2668-2.

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Golla, V., Snow, K., Mandalakas, A.M. et al. Correction to: The impact of drug resistance on the risk of tuberculosis infection and disease in child household contacts: a cross sectional study. BMC Infect Dis 17, 713 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2806-x

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