This PLOS ONE notice publishes a correction to the previously published research article reporting genomic epidemiological evidence that MRSA infection in hospitalized patients is dominated by community-acquired strains. The correction does not amend study data, results, or interpretation; it rectifies the ordering of the authors' institutional affiliations as presented in the original publication.
The corrected author sequence and the corresponding affiliation numbers are presented in this notice. The authors and corrected affiliation mapping are listed as:
Affiliations corresponding to the numeric labels above are provided in full as follows:
School of Public Health, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
Department of Medical Affairs, People’s Hospital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
Ningxia Key Laboratory of Environmental Factors and Chronic Disease Control, Yinchuan, China
Department of Infection Control, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
Department of Emergency Medicine, People’s Hospital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
The notice states that the affiliations in the originally published article were listed out of order and supplies the corrected ordering here for the record.
The correction cites the research article to which it pertains. The referenced original article is:
Dang J, Geng Y, Pan T, Zhang P, Chen M, Pan D, et al. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection in hospitalized patients is dominated by community-acquired strains: genomic epidemiological evidence. PLoS One. 2026;21(7):e0354017. pmid:42531211. The correction notice provides a link to the original article via DOI (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0354017) and notes its presence in PubMed and Google Scholar as appropriate.
The correction itself is published with its own citation and DOI: Dang J, Geng Y, Pan T, Zhang P, Chen M, Pan D, et al. (2026) Correction: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection in hospitalized patients is dominated by community-acquired strains: genomic epidemiological evidence. PLoS One 21(9): e0357884. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0357884. The published date listed for the correction is September 3, 2026.
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This correction explicitly states that it pertains to the original PLOS ONE research article on MRSA genomic epidemiology. The notice points readers to the original article page and to the PDF of the original article for the corrected record. Links provided in the correction include the DOI-based URLs for both the original article and the correction, as well as references to the PubMed/NCBI and Google Scholar entries where the original article is indexed.
The correction does not describe changes to the research methods, results, or conclusions; its scope is limited to the proper ordering of author affiliations and the formal citation metadata for the corrected record. Readers seeking the scientific details, data, or analyses supporting the finding that hospitalized-patient MRSA infections were dominated by community-acquired strains should consult the original article (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0354017) and its supporting materials.