Correction to: International Journal of Oral Science https://doi.org/10.1038/s41368-021-00134-4, published online 03 September 2021

Following publication of this article1, it is reported this article contained the below two errors:

  1. 1.

    The caption of Fig. 3c should be corrected from “DAPDH” to “GAPDH”

  2. 2.

    In the sentence on the second last line on page 2, “after 6 h of infection” should be changed to “after 12 h of infection”.

The original article has been updated.