Corrigendum to 'The epidemic of multidrug resistant tuberculosis in China in historical and phylogenetic perspectives' [Journal of Infection, Volume 80, Issue 4 (2020) Pages 444-453].

The authors regret that the function to calculate growth rate and results of number of clusters of RR strains were incorrect. Please see correction below: 1. In the method section, "phylogeny and population dynamics", the function used to calculate the growth rate should be as follows. This is a clerical error the results are unaffected.r=nPe/Ps−1 2. In the results section, "Transmission and positive selection of MDR-TB strains", this sentence: "six clusters including 7 (19.0%) RR strains had recently developed RR related mutations from rifampicin susceptible (RS) strains;" should be "four clusters including 6 (16.2%) RR strains had recently developed RR related mutations from rifampicin susceptible (RS) strains". These clusters / strains were correctly reported in Fig. 4; the four clusters which contain ten strains six of which are RR are:(1)CN3521(R), CN3509(S)(2)CN459(R), CN492(S)(3)CN2348(R), CN1124(R), CN2206(R), ancestor(S)(4)CN3218(R), CN3245(S) The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused. The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. The epidemic of multidrug resistant tuberculosis in China in historical and phylogenetic perspectivesJournal of InfectionVol. 80Issue 4PreviewFor the past decade, the epidemic of multidrug resistance tuberculosis (MDR-TB) stays high in China. We investigated the possible driving forces behind the epidemics from phylogenetic and historical perspectives. Full-Text PDF