Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. 2235-2988 Frontiers Media S.A. 10.3389/fcimb.2026.1799339 Correction Correction: Standardization of 16S rRNA gene sequencing using nanopore long read sequencing technology for clinical diagnosis of culture negative infections ButlerIan 1 2 * Software Validation Investigation Resources Conceptualization Visualization Data curation Formal analysis Writing – review & editing Project administration Supervision Funding acquisition Methodology Writing – original draft TurnerOlivia 1 MohammedKulsoom 1 AkhtarMazeda 1 EvansDaniel 3 † LambourneJonathan 1 † HarrisKathryn 1 † O’SullivanDenise M. 3 4 † SergakiChrysi 5 † Department of Microbiology, National Health Services (NHS) East and South East London Pathology Partnership, Bart’s Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom Molecular and Cell Biology, National Measurement Laboratory (NML), Laboratory of the Government Chemist (LGC), London, United Kingdom School of Biosciences & Medicine, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), London, United Kingdom Correspondence: Ian Butler, ianbutler@nhs.net

ORCID: Daniel Evans, orcid.org/0009-0009-4955-9554; Jonathan Lambourne, orcid.org/0000-0002-3458-6922; Kathryn Harris, orcid.org/0000-0003-3807-9749; Denise M. O’Sullivan, orcid.org/0000-0001-8915-7984; Chrysi Sergaki, orcid.org/0000-0003-0477-8680

 13 02 2026 2026 16 1799339 29 01 2026 30 01 2026 Copyright © 2026 Butler, Turner, Mohammed, Akhtar, Evans, Lambourne, Harris, O’Sullivan and Sergaki. 2026 Butler, Turner, Mohammed, Akhtar, Evans, Lambourne, Harris, O’Sullivan and Sergaki https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. A Correction on Standardization of 16S rRNA gene sequencing using nanopore long read sequencing technology for clinical diagnosis of culture negative infections By Butler I, Turner O, Mohammed K, Akhtar M, Evans D, Lambourne J, Harris K, O’Sullivan DM and Sergaki C (2025) Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. 15:1517208. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2025.1517208 16S rRNA Oxford nanopore long read sequencing standardization culture negative section-at-acceptance Clinical and Diagnostic Microbiology and Immunology

Affiliation “5Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester” was omitted for author Ian Butler. This affiliation has now been added for author Ian Butler

“Ian Butler1,2* Olivia Turner1, Kulsoom Mohammed1, Mazeda Akhtar1, Daniel Evans3, Jonathan Lambourne1, Kathryn Harris1, Denise M. O’Sullivan3,4 and Chrysi Sergaki5

1Department of Microbiology, National Health Services (NHS) East and South East London Pathology Partnership, Bart’s Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

2Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester

3Molecular and Cell Biology, National Measurement Laboratory (NML), Laboratory of the Government Chemist (LGC), London, United Kingdom

4School of Biosciences & Medicine, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

5Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), London, United Kingdom”

In the Acknowledgements, “This work was supported by the National School of Healthcare Science (NSHCS) as part of the Higher Specialist Scientist Training (HSST) program, UK” was omitted in error.

The corrected Acknowledgments section appears below.

Acknowledgments

This research was part of the Healthcare Scientist (HCS) Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) programme in affiliation with the National Measurement System (NMS) organisations and the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS). Acknowledgement Rui Pereira at NML for his contributions to this research. Also, acknowledgements to Neil Almond and Paul Matejschuk from NIBSC and Lorraine Turner and Alyson Bryant from UKAS and everyone at the NMS who supported this research. Special thanks to Ruben Mertens and the Molecular Microbiology team at Bart’s Health NHS Trust and also to Josh Chorlton and Sam Chorlton at BugSeq for their bioinformatic analysis support. This work was supported by the National School of Healthcare Science (NSHCS) as part of the Higher Specialist Scientist Training (HSST) program, UK.”

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