Abstract
Microbial Drug Resistance officially retracts the paper entitled, “Does Fluoroquinolones and Third-Generation Cephalosporins Restriction Reverse Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamases Klebsiella pneumoniae Resistance Rates?” by Mirjana Stanić Benić, Dora Palčevski, Romina Milanič, Nataša Skočibušić, Maja Abram, and Vera Vlahović-Palčevski (Microb Drug Resist 27:1159–1166, 2021; DOI:10.1089/mdr.2020.0301), at the authors' request.
The Editor-in-Chief of the journal received correspondence from the corresponding author, Dr. Mirjana Stanić Benić, requesting a retraction of the published article due to “shortcomings in statistical methodology. After the manuscript was published we, the authors, have received benevolent criticism from the readers who are senior and experienced experts, about the methodology that could have been more accurately handled (e.g. ‘Considering the small number of data points/months, there would have been better methods to analyze the effect of interventions, but multivariate time series analysis could not and should not have been used.’) We appreciate the constructive criticism we have received and would like to correct the methodological mistake and improve the manuscript. [sic]”
Dr. Stanić Benić indicated in her message to the Editor-in-Chief that she and her team would resubmit a new manuscript “with the same data but with revised analysis by using an adequate methodology. As our intervention was partly successful, we would still like to share our experience.”
If such a submission is received by the journal, it will undergo full and proper peer review as per the journal's standard procedures.
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