Correction to: Nature Reviews Microbiology https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-023-00865-7. Published online 9 March 2023.

In the version of this article initially published, the number of estimated deaths per year from rheumatic heart disease listed in Table 1 was written incorrectly as “>300” rather than “>300,000”. The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.