Correction to: BMC Res Notes (2017) 10:702 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-3045-3

Following publication of the original article [1], one of the authors reported that his name had been spelled incorrectly. It should be Galappaththi-Arachchige, not Galapaththi-Arachchige.

The original article has been corrected.