{"title":"Notice of Retraction: Guinea-worm (Dracunculus medinensis) infection presenting as a diabetic foot abscess: A case report from Kerala.","authors":"","doi":"10.25259/NMJI-32-22_ER","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The article 'Guinea-worm (Dracunculus medinensis) infection presenting as a diabetic foot abscess: A case report from Kerala is being retracted based on a letter received from the Director of the National Centre of Disease Control, New Delhi where the centre has objected to the identification of the guinea-worm by the authors only on the basis of morphological observation, without any microscopic and histopathological examination. The author has agreed to the objection and to the withdrawal of the article. This article is therefore being retracted. PEUSH SAHNI Editor The National Medical Journal of India All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India nmji@nmji.in.</p>","PeriodicalId":49782,"journal":{"name":"National Medical Journal of India","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"National Medical Journal of India","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.25259/NMJI-32-22_ER","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The article 'Guinea-worm (Dracunculus medinensis) infection presenting as a diabetic foot abscess: A case report from Kerala is being retracted based on a letter received from the Director of the National Centre of Disease Control, New Delhi where the centre has objected to the identification of the guinea-worm by the authors only on the basis of morphological observation, without any microscopic and histopathological examination. The author has agreed to the objection and to the withdrawal of the article. This article is therefore being retracted. PEUSH SAHNI Editor The National Medical Journal of India All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India nmji@nmji.in.
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