Correction to: Nature Microbiology https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-023-01358-2. Published online 20 April 2023.

In the version of the article originally published, in the fourth paragraph of the Discussion, in the sentence reading “This unexpected observation finds support in a parallel study, which showed that BFD1 and BFD2 (here, referred to as ROCY1) knockouts are capable of reinitiating acute infection as late as 5 months post inoculation, following immunosuppression” a reference was miscited. The sentence now cites Sokol-Borrelli, S. et al. (bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.06.487408 (2022)) in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.