Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46697-5, published online 15 July 2019

The Acknowledgements section in this Article is incomplete.

“We thank Hitoshi Suzuki, Shinichiro Kawada, Satoshi D. Ohdachi and Kimiyuki Tsuchiya for supporting field investigations and for valuable advice. This work was supported in part by a grant-in-aid Research on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases, Health Labour Sciences Research Grant in Japan (H25-Shinko-Ippan-008), grants-in-aid on Research Program on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) JP15fk0108005, JP16fk0108117, JP17fk0108217, JP18fk0108017 and JP19fk0108097, grant-in aid from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 24405045 (Scientific Research grant B), grant-in-aid on NAFOSTED (106-NN.05-2016.14), and VAST-JSPS (QTJP01.02/18-20).”

should read:

“We thank Hitoshi Suzuki, Shinichiro Kawada, Satoshi D. Ohdachi and Kimiyuki Tsuchiya for supporting field investigations and for valuable advice. This work was supported in part by a grant-in-aid Research on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases, Health Labour Sciences Research Grant in Japan (H25-Shinko-Ippan-008), grants-in-aid on Research Program on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) JP15fk0108005, JP16fk0108117, JP17fk0108217, JP18fk0108017 and JP19fk0108097, grant-in aid from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 24405045 (Scientific Research grant B), grant-in-aid on NAFOSTED (106-NN.05-2016.14), and VAST-JSPS (QTJP01.02/18-20). Support was also provided by U.S. Public Health Service grant P30GM114737 from the National Institutes of Health.”

Additionally, this Article contains errors in Reference 38 which was incorrectly given as:

Sikes, R. S. & Animal, C. & Use Committee of the American Society of, M. 2016 Guidelines of the American Society of Mammalogists for the use of wild mammals in research and education. J Mammal 97, 663–688, https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyw078 (2016).

The correct reference is listed below:

Sikes, R. S. & Animal Care & Use Committee of the American Society of Mammalogists. 2016 Guidelines of the American Society of Mammalogists for the use of wild mammals in research and education. J Mammal 97, 663–688, https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyw078 (2016).