Correction: Impact of smoking cessation, coffee and bread consumption on the intestinal microbial composition among Saudis: A cross-sectional study

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 20; no. 1; p. e0318869
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 30.01.2025; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Smoking cessation programs; Saudi Arabia
• ISSN: 1932-6203; 1932-6203
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0318869

Specifically, PLOS found that the ethics approval number #014-CEGMR-2-ETH-P was also reported in multiple other publications [3–19], despite apparent differences in the study objectives, periods during which the data were collected, study locations, study populations, sample sizes, sampling methodologies and ethics approval restrictions to data collection described in these studies. The corresponding author SH stated that the dates for data collection were reported incorrectly in [1], and co-author SB noted that the samples described in this article [1] were collected between May 20th and September 30th 2014. In light of the information and documentation provided by the authors and the Research Ethics Committee of the King Abdulaziz University, the Subjects and Study design subsection of the Methods section is updated to: