Erratum to: Immunol Res DOI 10.1007/s12026-009-8152-3

The second sentence in the abstract of the article entitled “Hepatitis C virus evasion of adaptive immune responses: a model for viral persistence” by Burke, Kelly P and Cox, Andrea L, should be corrected to read: “Approximately 20% of those acutely infected clear the infection, whereas the remaining 80% progress to chronic infection.”