Emerg Infect DisEmerging Infect. DisEIDEmerging Infectious Diseases1080-60401080-6059Centers for Disease Control and Prevention3310597C1-171110.3201/eid1711.C11711CorrectionCorrectionCorrection: Vol. 16, No. 11Address for correspondence: Austin L. Hughes, Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208; email: austin@biol.sc.edu112011171121802180BhoumikP, HughesAL. Reassortment of ancient neuraminidase and recent hemagglutinin in pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus. Emerg Infect Dis.16;11:1748-50.

In the article Reassortment of Ancient Neuraminidase and Recent Hemagglutinin in Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Virus (P. Bhoumik, A.L. Hughes; http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/11/10-0361_article.htm), errors were made in selection of the hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) sequences for the initial and subsequent data sets. As a result, the authors incorrectly concluded that the NA gene of the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus is of a more ancient lineage than the HA. Other researchers (and the authors) have not been able to reproduce the findings when using HA and NA matched pairs from viruses chosen on the basis of geography and time and correctly have pointed out errors in the data set that make the original conclusions invalid.

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Suggested Citation: Correction: Vol. 16, No. 11. Emerg Infect Dis [serial on the Internet]. 2011, Nov [date cited]. http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1711.C11711