Correction to: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:167

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-3801-1

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported that a collaborator’s name has been misspelled. Viktoria Eirini Mavromanolaki has been written by mistake Viktoria Eirini Mauromanolaki (u instead of v).