Coronavirus disease 2019 in a 2-month-old male infant: a case report from Iran

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Clin Exp Pediatr. 2022;65(8):417-417

Publication date (electronic) : 2022 July 19

doi : https://doi.org/10.3345/cep.2020.00941.r1

Hosein Heydari, MD, PhD ¹, Seyed Kamal Eshagh Hossaini, MD, PhD ¹, Ahmad Hormati, MD, PhD ²^,³, Mahboubeh Afifian, MS ⁴, Sajjad Ahmadpour, MS, PhD ³

¹Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Hazrat-e Fateme Masoumeh Hospital, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran

²Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

³Gastroenterology and Hepatology Diseases Research Center, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran

⁴Health Information Technology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

This retracted the article "Coronavirus disease 2019 in a 2-month-old male infant: a case report from Iran" in Volume 63 on page 499.

Vol. 63, No. 12, 499-502, 2020

https://doi.org/10.3345/cep.2020.00941

“Coronavirus disease 2019 in a 2-month-old male infant: A case report from Iran,” published in Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics in December 2020, has been retracted from publication.

The authors violated the journal’s publication ethics policy by falsifying IRB approval.

The ethical ID submitted by the authors is not relevant to this case report, and no valid ethical ID was subsequently provided.

Therefore, the CEP ethics committee has decided to retract this paper from the journal. We apologize to readers and assure them that we aim to thoroughly screen for ethics violations prior to publishing papers in Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics.

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