Correction to: Nature Microbiology https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-026-02315-5, published online 06 May 2026.

In the version of this article initially published, due to a figure preparation mistake, there was an error in Fig. 2c where the image shown as fwe A10 cells was an inadvertent duplicate of the fwe A11 image directly adjacent. The figure is now amended in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.