ISRN Infectious Diseases has retracted the article titled “Necrotizing Fasciitis: Diagnostic Challenges and Current Practices” [1]. The article was found to contain a substantial amount of material, without citation, from previously published articles, including the following sources:(i)Eric J Kuncir, Areti Tillou, Charles R. St. Hill, Patrizio Petrone, Brian Kimbrell, Juan A Asensio. “Necrotizing soft-tissue infections,” Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 2003. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0733-8627(03)00089-0 [2].(ii)Puvanendran R., Huey J. C., Pasupathy S. Necrotizing fasciitis. Can Fam Physician 2009; 55: 981–7 [3].(iii)Ellie J. C. Goldstein, Daniel A. Anaya, E. Patchen Dellinger; Necrotizing Soft-Tissue Infection: Diagnosis and Management, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 44, Issue 5, 1 March 2007, Pages 705–710, https://doi.org/10.1086/511638 [4].(iv)Qaali A. Hussein, Daniel A. Anaya. “Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections,” Critical Care Clinics, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccc.2013.06.001 [5].(v)Miguel Cainzos and Francisco J. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, “Necrotizing soft-tissue infections,” Current Opinion in Critical Care, 08/2007. https://doi.org/10.1097/MCC.0b013e32825a6a1b [6].
The article [1] includes an overlap of 1,174 words with Kuncir et al. [2], 1,135 words with Puvanendran et al. [3], 1,056 words with Goldstein et al. [4], 318 words with Hussein and Anaya [5], and 179 words with Cainzos and Gonzalez-Rodriguez [6].
The authors could not be contacted.