Scientific Reports 7: Article number: 46595; published online: 20 April 2017; updated: 07 July 2017

This Article contains a publication error in the legend of Table 2.

#Essentiality based on experimental results; ^Essentiality based on in silico analysis; *Metabolic Persister Genes; Proposed target for Metformin; Target for Bedaquiline; (a recent drug molecule)”.

should read:

#Essentiality based on experimental results; ^Essentiality based on in silico analysis; *Metabolic Persister Genes; Proposed target for Metformin; Target for Bedaquiline; (a recent drug molecule)”.