Retraction: A novel bacterial isolate Stenotrophomonas maltophilia as living factory for synthesis of gold nanoparticles.

Yogesh Nangia,C Raman Suri,Nishima Wangoo,Nisha Goyal,G Shekhawat

doi:10.1186/1475-2859-8-52

Abstract

[This retracts the article on p. 39 in vol. 8, PMID: 19619318.].

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This article [1] was submitted to Microbial Cell Factories at the same time as a very similar article [2] was submitted to Applied Physics Letters, subsequently published in June 2009
The two articles were produced from the same data and contained extensive overlap including duplication of figures
The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused to the editorial staff and readers

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This article [1] was submitted to Microbial Cell Factories at the same time as a very similar article [2] was submitted to Applied Physics Letters, subsequently published in June 2009. Address: 1Institute of Microbial Technology (CSIR), Sector 39-A, Chandigarh 160036, India and 2Institute of Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

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