Abstract
The publisher would like to report errors that appeared in a recently published article [1]. The 25%, 75% percentiles have been corrected in the Abstract: ‘Nine patients with HBeAg loss manifested a significantly greater decline in HBV RNA and HBcrAg levels (median 1.84 [25%,75% percentiles 1.02,2.12] log10 copies/ml, 1.14 [0.62,2.21] log10 U/ml, respectively) compared with those in seven patients without HBeAg loss (0.74 [0.10,1.08] log10 copies/ml and 0.41 [0.21,0.69] log10 U/ml, respectively)’ and in the Results section: ‘The median age of the patients with HBeAg loss was significantly greater than that of the patients without HBeAg loss (median 49 [25%,75% percentiles 38, 55] years versus 42 [31, 43] years, respectively; P<0.05). The serum HBsAg level of the patients with HBeAg loss was significantly lower than that of the patients without HBeAg loss (2.95 [2.74,3.43] log10 IU/ml versus 3.40 [3.27,4.19] log10 IU/ml, respectively; P<0.05). The degree of decline of HBV RNA and HBcrAg levels in the patients with HBeAg loss was significantly greater than that of the patients without HBeAg loss (1.84 [1.02,2.12] log10 copies/ml and 1.14 [0.62,2.21] log10 U/ml versus 0.74 [0.10,1.08] log10 copies/ml and 0.41 [0.21,0.69] log10 U/ml, respectively; both P<0.05; Table 1)’. This has been corrected as of 3 May 2019. The authors apologize for these errors.