RETRACTION: Expression of Small RNAs of Bordetella Pertussis Colonizing Murine Tracheas.

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Retraction: Y. Hiramatsu, K. Suzuki, D. Motooka, S. Nakamura, Y. Horiguchi, "Expression of Small RNAs of Bordetella Pertussis Colonizing Murine Tracheas," Microbiology and Immunology 64, no. 6 (2020): 469-475, https://doi.org/10.1111/1348-0421.12791. The above article, published online on 30 March, 2020 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the authors; the journal Editors-in-Chief, Chikara Kaito, Tomoyuki Honda, and Tomohiro Sawa; the Japanese Society for Bacteriology, the Japanese Society for Virology, and the Japanese Society for Host Defense Research; and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. The retraction has been agreed due to the request from the last author and the mutual agreement among all authors, after an institutional investigation was conducted by Osaka University that recommended retraction. The institutional investigation revealed that the first author was responsible for data fabrication and falsification within Figure 1(b), Figure 1(c) and data fabrication in Figure 2 for the Bpr4, 8 panels. Therefore, the conclusions of the paper are substantially compromised.