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Retraction Note: Optimized extraction, composition, antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of exo and intracellular polysaccharides from submerged culture of Cordyceps cicadae

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine volume 18, Article number: 276 (2018) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 23 December 2015

Retraction Note

The editor has retracted this article [1] due to overlap with a previously published article [2]. Both articles also appear to use the same image representing different fungal mycelial growths. S.K. Sharma and N.S. Atri do not agree to this retraction. N. Gautam has not responded to correspondence from the editor about this retraction.

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  1. Sharma SK, Gautam N, Atri NS. Optimized extraction, composition, antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of exo and intracellular polysaccharides from submerged culture of Cordyceps cicadae. BMC Complement Altern Med. 2015;15:446. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12906-015-0967-y.

  2. Sharma SK, Gautam N, Atri NS. Optimization, composition, and antioxidant activities of exo- and intracellular polysaccharides in submerged culture of Cordyceps gracilis (Grev.) Durieu & Mont. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2015;2015:8. https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/462864.

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  1. Department of Plant Pathology, CSK, Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University, Palampur, 176 062, India

    Sapan Kumar Sharma

  2. Centre for Environment Science and Technology, School of Environmental and Earth Sciences, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, 151 001, India

    Nandini Gautam

  3. Department of Botany, Punjabi University Patiala, Patiala, Punjab, 147 002, India

    Narender Singh Atri

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Sharma, S.K., Gautam, N. & Atri, N.S. Retraction Note: Optimized extraction, composition, antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of exo and intracellular polysaccharides from submerged culture of Cordyceps cicadae. BMC Complement Altern Med 18, 276 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12906-018-2344-0

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