Nature Reviews Microbiology (2018) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-018-0107-z Published online 18 October 2018

In the section on initial attachment and in Figure 1 it was erroneously indicated that enterococcal surface protein (Esp) binds collagen and fibrinogen. The text and figure were changed to remove this binding interaction both online and in the pdf. The authors apologize for any confusion caused.