Nature Communications 8: Article number: 16081 (2017); Published: 17 July 2017, Updated: 13 July 2018

The original version of this Article omitted the following from the Acknowledgements:

‘We thank Robert Kirkpatrick for implementing the high throughput protein design strategy that enabled screening and triage of essential A. baumannii targets, based on whole genome sequencing and annotation of BM4454 strain; and Stephanie Van Horn, Allan Kwan, Elizabeth Valoret for A. baumannii genome sequencing and annotation.’

Also, the original version omitted an acknowledgement to Prof. Lydia Tabernero as one of our collaborators for supplying the purified proteins used in the Tuberculosis screen.

This has been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.