We, the Editor-in-Chief and Publishers of Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, have retracted the following article:
Xi-Xi Cao, Yu-Hong Li, Qian-Lin Ye, Xuan Hu, Tian-Feng Wang & Ming-Wen Fan (2017) Self-assembling anticaries mucosal vaccine containing ferritin cage nanostructure and glucan-binding region of S. mutans glucosyltransferase effectively prevents caries formation in rodents, Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 13:10, 2332-2340, DOI: 10.1080/21645515.2017.1349046
The above article is being retracted as it has been brought to the attention of the Editor and Publisher that several images in the paper appear to have been manipulated. When approached for an explanation, the authors have been unable to verify their original data. The authors wish to apologize for their errors and the resulting inconvenience.
We have been informed in our decision-making by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retractions.
The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted.”