Immunity & Ageing

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Oral intake of Lactobacillus pentosus strain b240 accelerates salivary immunoglobulin A secretion in the elderly: A randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial

Yoshifumi Kotani*, Shoji Shinkai, Hiroshi Okamatsu, Masamichi Toba, Kishiko Ogawa, Hiroto Yoshida, Taro Fukaya, Yoshinori Fujiwara, Paulo HM Chaves, Keiji Kakumoto and Noriyuki Kohda

Immunity & Ageing 2010, 7:11 doi:10.1186/1742-4933-7-11

About an error in the total cell count

Yoshifumi Kotani   (2012-05-08 10:44)  Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. email

There was an error in the total cell count of the ingested strain, b240.
The correct count is 2 × 10^9 cells, not 4 × 10^9 cells.
This alteration to our data has not led to any changes in the published results, and our conclusions remain unaltered.

Competing interests

None declared

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