Alloreactivity and Association of Human Natural Killer Cells with the Major Histocompatibility Complex

The publisher hereby retracts the above-entitled article (Clin. Diagn. Lab. Immunol. 6:254-259, 1999). An investigation by the American Society for Microbiology Publications Board has determined that the paper plagiarized an earlier publication (“Human Natural Killer [NK] Alloreactivity and Its Association with the Major Histocompatibility Complex: Ancestral Haplotypes Encode Particular NK-Defined Haplotypes” by F. T. Christiansen, C. S. Witt, E. Ciccone, D. Townend, D. Pende, D. Viale, L. J. Abraham, R. L. Dawkins, and L. Moretta, J. Exp. Med. 178:1033-1039, 1993). The paper therefore is being retracted by ASM, as it represents a clear violation of ASM's ethical standards.

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