The Editor is retracting this article [1] because of concerns raised after publication with respect to the methods and the statistical analysis [2] which the authors have not been able to adequately address [2]. We apologise to all affected parties for the inconvenience caused. All authors support this retraction.
Footnotes
The online version of the original article can be found under doi:10.1186/1475-2891-14-5.
The online version of the original article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-14-5.
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