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Correction to: Invasive group A Streptococcus disease in Australian children: 2016 to 2018 – a descriptive cohort study

BMC Public Health volume 21, Article number: 855 (2021) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 30 December 2019

Correction to: BMC Public Health 19, 1750 (2019)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-8085-2

It was highlighted that the original article [1] contained an error in rates in the section “Annualised minimum incidence rate of paediatric iGAS disease”. This Correction article shows the incorrect and correct sentence. The authors would like to apologize to the readers for the inconvenience. The original article has been updated.

Incorrect

The mean annualised minimum incidence rate for ATSI children (<18 years old) across the study period

was 6.7 (95% CI: 4.0–11.1)/100,000, 4.1-fold higher than for all children (1.6, 95% CI: 1.1–2.3/100,000).

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The mean annualised minimum incidence rate for ATSI children (<18 years old) across the study period

was 3.4 (95% CI: 2.1–5.7)/100,000, 2.1-fold higher than for all children (1.6, 95% CI: 1.1–2.3/100,000).

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  1. Oliver J, et al. Invasive group A Streptococcus disease in Australian children: 2016 to 2018 – a descriptive cohort study. BMC Public Health. 2019;19:1750. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-8085-2.

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  1. Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Flemington Rd, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Australia

    Jane Oliver, Elise Thielemans, Alissa McMinn, Ciara Baker, Jim Buttery, Andrew C. Steer & Nigel W. Crawford

  2. The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Jane Oliver & Nigel W. Crawford

  3. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium

    Elise Thielemans

  4. The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia

    Philip N. Britton

  5. Medical School University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Philip N. Britton

  6. Queensland Children’s Hospital, and School of Clinical Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Julia E. Clark

  7. Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

    Helen S. Marshall

  8. School of Medicine angeid Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

    Christopher C. Blyth

  9. Perth Children’s Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

    Christopher C. Blyth

  10. PathWest Laboratory Medicine, Nedlands, Perth, Australia

    Christopher C. Blyth

  11. Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Northern Territory,, Australia

    Joshua Francis

  12. Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Northern Territory,, Australia

    Joshua Francis

  13. Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Jim Buttery

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Oliver, J., Thielemans, E., McMinn, A. et al. Correction to: Invasive group A Streptococcus disease in Australian children: 2016 to 2018 – a descriptive cohort study. BMC Public Health 21, 855 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10798-6

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