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Front. Microbiol., 27 June 2017
Sec. Infectious Agents and Disease

Corrigendum: Identification and Characterization of miRNAs in Response to Leishmania donovani Infection: Delineation of Their Roles in Macrophage Dysfunction

  • 1Molecular Immunology Group, Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
  • 2Department of Parasitology and Molecular Biology, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute, Patna, India
  • 3Bioinformatics Programme, Centre for Biological Science, Central University of South Bihar, Patna, India

A corrigendum on
Identification and Characterization of miRNAs in Response to Leishmania donovani Infection: Delineation of Their Roles in Macrophage Dysfunction

by Tiwari, N., Kumar, V., Gedda, M. R., Singh, A. K., Singh, V. K., Singh, S. P., et al. (2017). Front. Microbiol. 8:314. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00314

It has come to our attention that Dr. Sreenivas Gannavaram does not meet criteria necessary to be listed as an author, as specified by Frontiers; therefore, he has been removed from the authors' list and mentioned Acknowledgments instead.

The updated Author Contributions statement and Acknowledgments are below.

The authors apologize for this error and state that it does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way.

The original article has been updated.

Author Contributions

NT, VK, MG, and AS: designed and performed the experiments and co-wrote the MS. SS and VS: assisted in design of the study, statistical analysis, and MS writing. RS: conceived, designed, directed, and supervised the complete study.

Conflict of Interest Statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

Acknowledgments

Financial support from Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi (SB/SO/HS/0091/2013) is greatly acknowledged. NT and MG are thankful to University Grants Commission (UGC) & BHU for their research fellowships and VK is thankful to DST (YSS/2015/000687) for providing fellowship. The technical support received from V. K. Singh, Bioinformatics Centre, School of Biotechnology, Banaras Hindu University is greatly acknowledged. We thank Dr. Sreenivas Gannavaram, CBER, Food and Drug Administration, USA for his valuable suggestions.

Keywords: L. donovani, miRNA, biomarkers, macrophages, dysfunction

Citation: Tiwari N, Kumar V, Gedda MR, Singh AK, Singh VK, Singh SP and Singh RK (2017) Corrigendum: Identification and Characterization of miRNAs in Response to Leishmania donovani Infection: Delineation of Their Roles in Macrophage Dysfunction. Front. Microbiol. 8:1190. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01190

Received: 27 April 2017; Accepted: 12 June 2017;
Published: 27 June 2017.

Edited and reviewed by: Thomas Dandekar, University of Würzburg, Germany

Copyright © 2017 Tiwari, Kumar, Gedda, Singh, Singh, Singh and Singh. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

*Correspondence: Rakesh K. Singh, rakesh_bc@bhu.ac.in

These authors have contributed equally to this work.

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