Correction to: npj Biofilms and Microbiomes https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-021-00232-5, published online 22 July 2021

In this article the author name Guanmin Jiang was incorrectly written as Guangmin Jiang and the affiliation ‘Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China’ was missing.

The original article has been corrected.