Correction to "Association of common infections with cognitive performance in the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area study follow‐up"

A data coding error was identified in the published manuscript, specifically involving the coding of seropositive status for the varicella zoster virus (VZV).The data coding error specifically affected the Results section and two tables.Here, we provide corrected tables reflecting the relationship between infection sum score and modeled covariates (Table 1) and the corrected results of the association between VZV alone and the pathogen sum score with each cognitive outcome (Table 2).The primary result in the publication, showing an association between total infection count and Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE) performance remains significant (beta = 0.13, p = 0.001), and the result for the main effect of VZV on MMSE score in the zero-inflated model is no longer significant (beta = -0.78,p = 0.215).In paragraph 1 of the Results section, the following results are incorrect: "Among all participants, EBV seropositivity was most common (79.3%), followed by VZV (70.2%),HSV-1 (68.5%),CMV (67.5%), and TOX (24.7%).Participant characteristics by number of total positive antibody tests (0-5) are in Table 1.Most participants (N = 488, 84.9%) had between 2 and 4 positive antibody tests with a mode of 3 positive tests (N = 210, 36.5%).