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The Editor-in-Chief and the publisher have retracted this article. The article was submitted to be part of a guest-edited issue. An investigation by the publisher found a number of articles, including this one, with a number of concerns, including but not limited to compromised editorial handling and peer review process, inappropriate or irrelevant references or not being in scope of the journal or guest-edited issue. Based on the investigation's findings the Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the results and conclusions of this article.
The authors Mickymaray Suresh and Mahmoud M. Tolba agree with this retraction. The authors Vijayalakshmi Selvakumar, M. Abd Elkodous, Hanady G. Nada, Hanan El-Bastawisy, Ahmed Noureldeen, Hadeer Darwish, Eman Fayad and Gharieb S. El-Sayyad disagree with this retraction. The authors Annamalai Panneerselvam, Thajuddin Nooruddin, Kaushik Pal, Walaa Khairy and Hebatallah Nasser have not responded to correspondence regarding this retraction. The Publisher has not been able to obtain a current email address for the author Karthik Kannan. The online version of this article contains the full text of the retracted article as Supplementary Information.
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The Editor-in-Chief and the publisher have retracted this article. The article was submitted to be part of a guest-edited issue. An investigation by the publisher found a number of articles, including this one, with a number of concerns, including but not limited to compromised editorial handling and peer review process, inappropriate or irrelevant references or not being in scope of the journal or guest-edited issue. Based on the investigation's findings the Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the results and conclusions of this article.
The authors Mickymaray Suresh and Mahmoud M. Tolba agree with this retraction. The authors Vijayalakshmi Selvakumar, M. Abd Elkodous, Hanady G. Nada, Hanan El-Bastawisy, Ahmed Noureldeen, Hadeer Darwish, Eman Fayad and Gharieb S. El-Sayyad disagree with this retraction. The authors Annamalai Panneerselvam, Thajuddin Nooruddin, Kaushik Pal, Walaa Khairy and Hebatallah Nasser have not responded to correspondence regarding this retraction. The Publisher has not been able to obtain a current email address for the author Karthik Kannan. The online version of this article contains the full text of the retracted article as Supplementary Information.
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Selvakumar, V., Kannan, K., Panneerselvam, A. et al. RETRACTED ARTICLE: Molecular identification of extended spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs)-producing strains in clinical specimens from Tiruchirappalli, India. Appl Nanosci 13, 3625 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13204-021-01886-5
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