Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-18126-y, published online 21 December 2017

This Article contains errors in Figure 4, where the photomicrographs of representative sections of lungs shown in panels a, c, d and e are incorrect due to misfiling of the data. The correct Figure 4 appears below as Figure 1.

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