Scientific Reports 7: Article number: 46025; published online: 06 April 2017; updated: 27 July 2017.

The original version of this Article contained errors. In the Abstract,

“The patients in the community-acquired SBP (n = 311) and the nosocomial SBP (n = 264) groups exhibited significant differences in clinical symptoms (P < 0.01)”.

now reads:

“The patients in the community-acquired SBP (n = 264) and the nosocomial SBP (n = 311) groups exhibited significant differences in clinical symptoms (P < 0.01)”.

In the Results section, under subheading ‘Basic patient information’,

“Patients were divided into either nosocomial (n = 264) or community-acquired groups (n = 311) according to the type of infection”.

now reads:

“Patients were divided into either nosocomial (n = 311) or community-acquired groups (n = 264) according to the type of infection”.

As a result, the values of the columns ‘Community-acquired (n, %)’ and ‘Nosocomial (n, %)’ in Table 2 were incorrect.

Table 2 Bacteria distributions in ascitic fluid.

These errors have now been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.