Author Correction: Cytokine storms are primarily responsible for the rapid death of ducklings infected with duck hepatitis A virus type 1.

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

Correction to: Scientific Reports 10.1038/s41598-018-24729-w, published online 26 April 2018

This Article contains errors in the Materials and Methods section, under the subheading ‘Viral RNA load in the liver and cytokine expression in the liver and blood’.

“Amplification was performed in 10-µl reaction volumes containing 0.5 µl of each primer and 1 µl of RNA”

should read:

“Amplification was performed in 10-µl reaction volumes containing 0.5 µl of each primer and 1 µl of cDNA”

In addition, this Article contains errors in Reference 46 which was incorrectly given as:

Ou, X. et al. The neglected avian hepatotropic virus induces acute and chronic hepatitis in ducks: an alternative model for hepatology. Oncotarget, (2017).

The correct reference is listed below as ref. 1: