CORRECTION article
Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol.
Sec. Clinical Infectious Diseases
Volume 15 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2025.1707506
Correction: The clinical impact of 16S ribosomal RNA PCR and sequencing in the identification of bacterial infections: A 7-year report from a Lebanese tertiary care center
Provisionally accepted
Nour Youssef
Celina F. Boutros
Fatima Dakroub
Fata Akl
Lina Reslan
Marc Finianos
Mohamad Bahij Moumneh
Tarek Bou DArghamZeinab EL ZeinAmani HaddaraRawan Korman
Sarah Khafaja
George F Araj
Ghassan M Matar*
Ghassan S. Dbaibo*- American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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A correction on: The clinical impact of 16S ribosomal RNA PCR and sequencing in the identification of bacterial infections: a 7-year report from a Lebanese tertiary care center. By Youssef N, Boutros CF, Dakroub F, Akl F, Reslan L, Finianos M, Moumneh MBM, Dargham TB, Zein ZE, Haddara A, Korman R, Khafaja S, Matar G, Araj GF, and Dbaibo GS (2025). Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. 15:1619640.doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2025.1619640 In the published article, the author Ghassan Matar was erroneously spelled as Ghassan Matar. The correct spelling is "Ghassan M. Matar". The order of authors in the author list of the published paper was erroneously given as: Nour Youssef 1,2 , Celina F. Boutros 1 , Fatima Dakroub 1 , Fata Akl 1 , Lina Reslan 1 , Marc Finianos 1 , Mohammad Bahij M. Moumneh 1 , Tarek Bou Dargham 1 , Zeinab El Zein 1,2,3 , Amani Haddara 1 , Rawan Korman 1 , Sarah Khafaja 1,2,3 , Ghassan Matar 1,4 , George F. Araj 1,5 and Ghassan S. Dbaibo 1,2,3 * The correct author list reads: Nour Youssef 1,2 , Celina F. Boutros 1 , Fatima Dakroub 1 , Fata Akl 1 , Lina Reslan 1 , Marc Finianos 1 , Mohammad Bahij M. Moumneh 1 , Tarek Bou Dargham 1 , Zeinab El Zein 1,2,3 , Amani Haddara 1 , Rawan Korman 1 , Sarah Khafaja 1,2,3 , George F. Araj 1,4 , Ghassan M. Matar 1,5 * and Ghassan S. Dbaibo 1,2,3 *
Keywords: 16S rRNA, Antimicrobial management, Clinical specimens, diagnostic yield, Clinical impact, Bacterial infection, conventional culture, Lebanon
Received: 17 Sep 2025; Accepted: 08 Oct 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Youssef, Boutros, Dakroub, Akl, Reslan, Finianos, Moumneh, Bou DArgham, EL Zein, Haddara, Korman, Khafaja, Araj, Matar and Dbaibo. 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:
Ghassan M Matar, gmatar@aub.edu.lb
Ghassan S. Dbaibo, gdbaibo@aub.edu.lb
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