Retraction: Barbaro et Al. Incidence of Dilated Cardiomyopathy and Detection of HIV in Myocardial Cells of HIV-Positive Patients. N Engl J Med 1998;339:1093-9.
It was brought to our attention that Figure 1 in a 1990 articleby Grody and coworkers,1 when printed as displayed below (inblack and white, inverted top to bottom and side to side), isstrikingly similar (except for the in situ hybridization signal)to Figure 2 below, which appeared in an article by Barbaro etal. that we published in 1998.2 We contacted the correspondingauthors of both articles. An author of the article by Grodyet al. provided us with their original microscope slide, whichwe photographed (Figure 3 below). Because of the unmistakablesimilarity between the figures (the cellular aspects of Figure 1and Figure 2 are fully superimposable in transparencies),we must retract publication of the article by Barbaro et al.
Figure 1. Originally printed as Figure 1 in Grody et al., Infection of the heart by the human immunodeficiency virus. Am J Cardiol 1990;66:203-6. Reprinted with the permission of the publisher.
Figure 2. Originally printed as Figure 2 in Barbaro et al., Incidence of dilated cardiomyopathy and detection of HIV in myocardial cells of HIV-positive patients. N Engl J Med 1998;339:1093-9.
Figure 3. Photomicrograph of an original microscope slide provided by one of the authors of Grody et al., Infection of the heart by the human immunodeficiency virus.
Jeffrey M. Drazen, M.D. Gregory D. Curfman, M.D.
References
Grody WW, Cheng L, Lewis W. Infection of the heart by the human immunodeficiency virus. Am J Cardiol 1990;66:203-206. [CrossRef][Web of Science][Medline]
Barbaro G, DiLorenzo G, Grisorio B, Barbarini G. Incidence of dilated cardiomyopathy and detection of HIV in myocardial cells of HIV-positive patients. N Engl J Med 1998;339:1093-1099. [Free Full Text]
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