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Open Access

Peer-reviewed

Research Article

Awareness of residents about kala-azar and its related practices in two endemic areas of Bangladesh

  • Farzana Saleh ,

    Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    farzanasaleh_sumona@yahoo.com

    Affiliation Department of Community Nutrition, Bangladesh University of Health Sciences, Darussalam, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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  • Md. Fazlarabbi Khan,

    Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Healthy Living Trust, Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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  • Md. Rowshan Kabir

    Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

    Affiliation Nutrition Section, UNICEF Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Retraction

Following the publication of this article [1], concerns were raised regarding the authorship and ownership of the presented data. The Northern University Bangladesh investigated the authorship and data ownership concerns, and informed PLOS that the data presented in this article belong to another researcher, who was not included as an author on this article and who did not provide permission for the data to be used by the authors or to be shared under an Open Access licence.

In light of the institutional finding, this article [1] does not adhere to the PLOS ONE Licences and Copyright policy, and the article is being retracted upon request from the data owner. The retracted PLOS ONE article was removed from the PLOS ONE website at the time of retraction and the removed contents are no longer offered under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

The authors either did not respond directly to the editorial decision to retract this article or could not be reached.

23 Jun 2022: The PLOS ONE Editors (2022) Retraction: Awareness of residents about kala-azar and its related practices in two endemic areas of Bangladesh. PLOS ONE 17(6): e0270656. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270656 View retraction

Citation: Saleh F, Khan MF, Kabir MR (2019) Awareness of residents about kala-azar and its related practices in two endemic areas of Bangladesh. PLoS ONE 14(7): e0219591. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219591

Editor: Ashraf Dewan, Curtin University, AUSTRALIA

Received: August 22, 2018; Accepted: June 27, 2019; Published: July 18, 2019

Copyright: © 2019 Saleh et al. This retracted article was originally published as an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. However, PLOS did not receive documentation confirming that the data owner(s) granted permission or a license for use of the presented data or for publication of this work.

Data Availability: The Data Availability statement was deleted at the time of the article’s removal. See the accompanying retraction notice for more information.

Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.

Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.