Correction to: Modern Pathology (2012) 25, 1–13; doi:10.1038/modpathol.2011.125; published online 26 August 2011

In this article, the names of the eleventh and seventeenth authors are incorrect. The correct names are Toshihiko Iizuka and Akio Hasegawa, respectively.

Affiliation 7 is incorrect; the correct affiliation is Department of Diagnostic Pathology, Nara Medical University Hospital, Nara, Japan.

The Acknowledgments are as follows:

We thank Drs M Watanabe, A Takiyama, Y Urata, H Miwa, T Okamura, N Igarashi, H Kishi, K Azuhata, and K Nakanishi for clinical and pathological information on the patients. This work was supported by a Health and Labour Sciences Research Grant on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases (H22-Shinko-Ippan-014), from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan.