Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-14572-1, published online 11 August 2025

The original version of this Article contained errors in Figure 2, where panels (a) and (b) were inadvertently omitted during production. The original Figure 2 and accompanying legend appear below.

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Expression of SF-25 Ag in ATL, HTLV-1 carriers and healthy controls. (a) Representative data of SF-25 Ag and CD4 expression with smoldering ATL. SF-25-expressing cells also expressed CD4. (b) KUT-1 and MT-1 cells were incubated for 30 min at 4 °C with 1 µg/mL of FITC-conjugated murine SF-25 Mab (FITC-m-SF-25 Mab) or FITC-conjugated irrelevant murine IgG1 Mab (FITC-m-IgG1), washed with PBS, and analyzed by flow cytometry. (c) Patients with ATL and healthy controls were categorized as follows: Group A, the healthy controls without HTLV-1 infection; Group B, the healthy HTLV-1 carriers; Group C, the patients with smoldering ATL; Group D, the patients with chronic ATL; and Group E, the patients with acute ATL. Notably, the expression of SF-25 in ATL patients was significantly higher than that in both HTLV-1 healthy carriers and healthy controls without HTLV-1 infection (P < 0.001). ATL adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma; FITC fluorescein isothiocyanate; HTLV-1, human T-lymphotropic virus 1.

The original Article has been corrected.