Article History

Received: 6 August 2015

Accepted: 6 January 2016

First Online: 1 February 2016

Change Date: 6 March 2017

Change Type: Corrigendum

Change Date: 6 March 2017

Change Type: Erratum

Change Details: In the version of this article initially published, in Figure 2b, in the panel called "CNS infections" the bar of CC3 should have been represented in red and the one of CC121 should have been represented in blue. The errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

Change Details: In the version of this article initially published, the titles of thexaxes in Figure 5b and 5c should have been “Brain/blood CFU ratio” instead of "Blood/brain CFU ratio," and the title of thezaxis in Figure 2c should have been "% of isolates" instead of "Number of isolates." The errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

Competing interests

: The authors declare no competing financial interests.