Scientific Reports 5: Article number: 13517; published online: 04 September 2015; updated: 02 November 2015

This Article contains typographical errors in Table 1.

For the B. bifidum, JCM1209 strain under ‘HMO’, ‘2FL’ and ‘3FL’, the level of growth should read ‘+’, ‘++’ and ‘+’ respectively.

In addition, for the B. bifidum PRL2010 strain under ‘6SL’ and ‘Mucin’, the level of growth should read ‘-’ and ‘++’ respectively.