Correction: Intracellular growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis after macrophage cell death leads to serial killing of host cells

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 Mahamed^1,2, Mikael Boulle^1,2,3, Yashica Ganga¹, Chanelle Mc Arthur^1,2, Steven Skroch^1,2, Lance Oom^1,2, Oana Catinas¹, Kelly Pillay^1,2, Myshnee Naicker¹, Sanisha Rampersad^1,2, Colisile Mathonsi^1,2, Jessica Hunter^1,2, Emily B Wong^1,4, Moosa Suleman^5,6, Gopalkrishna Sreejit¹, Alexander S Pym¹, Gila Lustig¹, Alex Sigal^1,2,3*

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.