After an internal investigation by the Wuhan University Academic Ethics Committee, the authors of this paper requested that it be retracted. Several of the dataplots in Figure 8 contain regions that appeared to be identical, and concerns have been raised about other figures. The internal investigation could not account for the apparent duplications within Figure 8 and so the provenance and accuracy of these, and potentially other, figures cannot therefore be guaranteed. As a result, the overall integrity of this work is uncertain, and the paper was retracted from PLoS Pathogens on 03 Dec 2010.
Citation: Yuling H, Ruijing X, Xiang J, Li L, Lang C, Jie X, et al. (2010) Retraction: EBV Promotes Human CD8+ NKT Cell Development. PLoS Pathog 6(12): 10.1371/annotation/1730f52d-2ba9-4f08-b330-47d71b31ae4a. https://doi.org/10.1371/annotation/1730f52d-2ba9-4f08-b330-47d71b31ae4a
Published: December 03, 2010
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