458 Critical Care October 2005 Vol 9 No 5 Siassi et al. Following the publication of the above article [1], we noticed that the Authors’ contributions section was incorrect and should read as follows: MS and JS conceived of the study, developed the study design and carried out the statistical analysis. JR was responsible for patient recruitment and clinical follow up, sample collection and DNA-isolation and also carried out the MBL-serum measurements. RS performed the MBL- genotyping. MM participated in the PCT analysis. ST participated in the study design and data analysis. WH participated in the study design and drafting of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. References 1. Siassi M, Riese J, Steffensen R, Meisner M, Thiel S, Hohenberger W, Schmidt J: Mannan-binding lectin and procalcitonin mea- surement for prediction of postoperative infection. Crit Care 2005, 9:R483-R489. Correction Correction: Mannan-binding lectin and procalcitonin measurement for prediction of postoperative infection Michael Siassi 1 , Jutta Riese 1 , Rudi Steffensen 2 , Michael Meisner 3 , Steffen Thiel 4 , Werner Hohenberger 5 and Joachim Schmidt 6 1 Department of Surgery, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany 2 Regional Centre for Blood Transfusion and Clinical Immunology, Aalborg Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark 3 Department of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany 4 Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark 5 Professor, Department of Surgery, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany 6 Department of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany Corresponding author: Michael Siassi, michael@siassi.de Published online: 9 September 2005 Critical Care 2005, 9:458 (DOI 10.1186/cc3820) This article is online at http://ccforum.com/content/9/5/458 © 2005 Siassi et al., licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is cited. . J: Mannan-binding lectin and procalcitonin mea- surement for prediction of postoperative infection. Crit Care 2005, 9:R483-R489. Correction Correction: Mannan-binding lectin and procalcitonin measurement. analysis. JR was responsible for patient recruitment and clinical follow up, sample collection and DNA-isolation and also carried out the MBL-serum measurements. RS performed the MBL- genotyping Germany 4 Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark 5 Professor, Department of Surgery, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany 6 Department of Anaesthesiology,