Correction to: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (2020) 104:8231–8242

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-020-10802-w

There is an error in the Introduction section of the original publication. The text “Two are against advanced melanoma, among which one was approved in the USA, Europe, and Australia based on a modified oncolytic herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 1 known as talimogene laherparepvec (T-VEC) and the other a reovirus sold under the name Rigvir commercialized in Latvia, Estonia, Poland, and Belarus (Alberts et al. 2016; Harrington et al. 2015).” should be replaced by:

“Two are against advanced melanoma, among which one was approved in the USA, Europe, and Australia based on a modified oncolytic herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 1 known as talimogene laherparepvec (T-VEC) and the other an ECHO-7 virus sold under the name Rigvir and approved in Latvia, Georgia, Armenia and Uzbekistan (Alberts et al. 2016; Doniņa et al. 2015; Alberts et al. 2018).”