Scientific Reports 6: Article number: 39430; published online: 23 December 2016; updated: 22 March 2017.

The original version of this Article contained typographical errors in the Abstract.

‘In autoimmune diseases, there have been proposals that exogenous “molecular triggers”, i.e., specific this should be ‘non-self antigens’ accompanying infectious agents, might disrupt control of the adaptive immune system resulting in serious pathologies’.

now reads:

‘In autoimmune diseases, there have been proposals that exogenous “molecular triggers”, i.e., specific ‘non-self antigens’ accompanying infectious agents, might disrupt control of the adaptive immune system resulting in serious pathologies’.

‘The etiology of the multiple sclerosis (MS) remains unclear’.

now reads:

‘The etiology of multiple sclerosis (MS) remains unclear’.

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