Correction to: Infection (2019) 47:703–727 https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-019-01325-2

Acknowledgements Members of the Echinococcosis Working Group Ulm: Thomas FE Barth, Sven Baumann, Johannes Bloehdorn, Iris Fischer, Tilmann Graeter, Natalja Graf, Beate Gruener, Doris Henne-Bruns, Andreas Hillenbrand, Tanja Kaltenbach, Peter Kern, Petra Kern, Katharina Klein, Wolfgang Kratzer, Niloofar Ehteshami, Patrycja Schlingelof, Julian Schmidberger, Rong Shi, Yael Staehelin, Frauke Theis, Daniil Verbitskiy, Ghaith Zarour.

The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. Figure 3 in the original version of this article has been replaced. The corrected Fig. 3 is given below.

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Current distribution of alveolar echinococcosis in humans according to the published literature 2001–2018 in China. Each province in which cases of AE had been reported in the literature between 2001 and 2018 was mapped. For the topographical colour shading of a province, the highest total number of cases in one reference within this period was the deciding factor

The original article has been corrected.