RETRACTED: The pathogenicity of COVID-19 and the role of pentraxin-3: An updated review study

Ria Margiana; Satish Kumar Sharma; Bilal Irshad Khan; Ameer A Alameri; Maria Jade Catalan Opulencia; Ali Thaeer Hammid; Thulfeqar Ahmed Hamza; Sharaf Khamrakulovich Babakulov; Walid Kamal Abdelbasset; Zanko Hassan Jawhar

doi:10.1016/j.prp.2022.154128

RETRACTED: The pathogenicity of COVID-19 and the role of pentraxin-3: An updated review study

Pathol Res Pract. 2022 Oct:238:154128. doi: 10.1016/j.prp.2022.154128. Epub 2022 Sep 15.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia; Master's Programme Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia; Andrology Program, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia; Dr. Soetomo General Academic Hospital, Surabaya, Indonesia. Electronic address: ria.margiana@ui.ac.id.
² Department of Pharmacology, Glocal School of Pharmacy, The Glocal University, Saharanpur, India. Electronic address: satishdipsar55@gmail.com.
³ Mbbs, Rawalpindi Medical University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
⁴ Department of Chemistry, University of Babylon, Iraq.
⁵ College of Business Administration, Ajman University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates.
⁶ Computer Engineering Techniques Department, Faculty of Information Technology, Imam Ja'afar Al-Sadiq University, Baghdad, Iraq.
⁷ Medical laboratory techniques department, Al-Mustaqbal University College, Babylon, Iraq.
⁸ Tashkent State Dental Institute, Makhtumkuli Street 103, Tashkent, 100047, Uzbekistan; Research scholar, Department of Scientific affairs, Samarkand State Medical Institute, Amir Temur Street 18, Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
⁹ Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia; Department of Physical Therapy, Kasr Al-Aini Hospital, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.
¹⁰ Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Science, Lebanese French University, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.

Abstract

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. In investigating concerns regarding the contributions of the authors to this article, the editors reached out to the authors for an explanation. In addition to the concerns regarding the contribution of each author, the editors discovered suspicious changes in authorship between the original submission and the revised version of this paper. The names of the authors Ameer A Alameri and Zanko Hassan Jawhar were added to the revised version of the article without explanation and without the exceptional approval by the handling Editor, which is contrary to the journal policy on changes to authorship. The authors were unable to provide a reasonable explanation for either of the issues raised. The editor therefore feels that the findings of the manuscript cannot be relied upon and that the article needs to be retracted.

Publication types

Retracted Publication