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.AFN and SF did not agree with the retraction. MArif and XW responded but expressed neither agreement nor disagreement with the editorial decision. MSKK, SUK, SSaeed, AMK, RAK, MAfzal, MAZ, HOE, SShokralla, AA, and AG either did not respond directly or could not be reached.
Authors: Muhammad Arif; Xiukang Wang; Mohammad Sayyar Khan Kazi; Shahid Ullah Khan; Sumbul Saeed; Amir Muhammad Khan; Rahmat Ali Khan; Masood Afzal; Ayesha Fazal Nawaz; Muhammad Amir Zia; Hosam O Elansary; Shadi Shokralla; Abdullah Alhalabi; Alia Gul; Sajid Fiaz Journal: PLoS One Date: 2022-04-28 Impact factor: 3.752