Nature Communications 8:272 doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00309-w; Article published online 16 August 2017

Marygorret Obonyo, who provided the H. pylori SS1 strain for this work and participated in the design of H. pylori infection studies, was inadvertently omitted from the author list. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.