Erratum to: Appl Microbiol Biotechnol

DOI 10.1007/s00253-006-0802-y

This article unfortunately contained a mistake. The strain designations of two species, Prevotella brevis and Prevotella bryantii, were inadvertently reversed in Table 2. The names and sequences of the corresponding species-specific primers were not in error. The corrected table appears below.

Table 2 PCR primers used in this study