Retraction: "Anti-citrullinated peptide antibodies and rheumatoid factor in Sudanese patients with Leishmania donovaniinfection"

Retracted article: Ahlin E, Elshafei A, Nur M, El Safi SH, Johan R, Elghazali G. Anti-citrullinated peptide antibodies and rheumatoid factor in Sudanese patients with Leishmania donovani infection. Rev Bras Reumatol. 2011 Dec;51(6):579-86. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0482-50042011000600005

RETRACTION: Ahlin E, Elshafei A, Nur M, El Safi SH, Johan R, Elghazali G. Anti-citrullinated peptide antibodies and rheumatoid factor in Sudanese patients with Leishmania donovani infection. Rev Bras Reumatol. 2011 Dec;51(6):579-86. English, Portuguese. PubMed PMID: 22124592 has been retracted.

ABSTRACT: The paper entitled Ahlin E, Elshafei A, Nur M, El Safi SH, Johan R, Elghazali G. Anti-citrullinated peptide antibodies and rheumatoid factor in Sudanese patients with Leishmania donovani infection. Rev Bras Reumatol. 2011 Dec;51(6):579-86. English, Portuguese. PubMed PMID: 22124592 has been retracted.

This is due to plagiarism.

The reasons pointed out were:

1. Author Elghazali G did not take part in the production of the data for the paper and has never been a co-author on any version of the manuscript.

2. A paper with very similar content, which was part of the PhD thesis of author Ahlin E (first author), was accepted for another journal.

3. The figures in the paper published in this journal were identical to the figures in author Ahlin E's PhD thesis.

4. The name of author Johan Ronnelid was misspelt in the paper published in our journal (RBR).

*Corresponding author. E-mail: [e-mail](G. Elghazali).

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