Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37846-3, published online 06 February 2019

In the original version of this Article, Irini Sereti was incorrectly affiliated with ‘Government Hospital of Thoracic Medicine, Tambaram, Chennai, India’. The correct affiliation is listed below.

Clinical HIV Pathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

This error has now been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.