The PLOS ONE Editors retract this article [1] because it was identified as one of a series of submissions for which we have concerns about authorship, competing interests, and peer review. We regret that the issues were not addressed prior to the article’s publication.AMAS agreed with the retraction. MY, NAR, NAK, AAZ, GAK, MWA, and MA either did not respond directly or could not be reached. HZ, TL, SH, SS, HK, MJA, ATKZ, and YL did not agree with the retraction.
Authors: Muhammad Younas; Huasong Zou; Tasmia Laraib; Nasir Ahmad Rajpoot; Nasir Ahmad Khan; Anas Ahmad Zaidi; Ghalib Ayaz Kachelo; Muhammad Waqar Akhtar; Shoukat Hayat; Abdullah M Al-Sadi; Samy Sayed; Hosny Kesba; Mohammad Javed Ansari; Ali Tan Kee Zuan; Yunzhou Li; Muhammad Arif Journal: PLoS One Date: 2021-09-16 Impact factor: 3.752