Retraction Note: Helicobacter pylori strains isolated from raw poultry meat: frequency and molecular characteristics

Retraction of: Scientific Reports 10.1038/s41598-023-38374-5, published online 10 July 2023

Editors have retracted this Article.

After publication of this Article, concerns were raised about overlap in text and data with a prior publication with no common authors¹. The Authors provided the raw data for the paper, but the subsequent analysis of this information identified discrepancies between the gel images provided and the data reported in the Article. The Editors therefore no longer have confidence in the reliability of the Article's findings or conclusions.

Tohid Piri‑Gharaghie, Shakiba Tolou‑Shikhzadeh‑Yazdi, Mona Aghassizadeh‑Sherbaf, and Sahar Khorsand‑Dehkordi disagree with this retraction. Ghazal Ghajari did not respond to correspondence from the Editors about this retraction.