RETRACTED ARTICLE: Efficacy of combined Sofosbuvir and Daclatasvir in the treatment of COVID-19 patients with pneumonia: a multicenter Egyptian study

Statement of Retraction

We, the Editors and Publisher of Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy, have retracted the following article:

Mahmoud El-Bendary, Sherief Abd-Elsalam, Tamer Elbaz, Wafaa El-Akel, Ahmed Cordie, Tamer Elhadidy, Hatem Elalfy, Khaled Farid, Mohamed Elegezy, Adel El-Badrawy, Mustafa Neamatallah, Mohamed Abd Elghafar, Marwa Salama, Mohamed AbdAllah, Mahmoud Essam, Mostafa El-Shazly & Gamal Esmat, Efficacy of combined Sofosbuvir and Daclatasvir in the treatment of COVID-19 patients with pneumonia: a multicenter Egyptian study, Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy, Volume 20, 2022 - Issue 2, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14787210.2021.1950532

Since publication, significant concerns have been raised about the integrity of the data and reported results in the article. When approached for an explanation, the authors have been unable to fully address the concerns raised and have not been able to provide sufficient supporting information. As verifying the validity of published work is core to the integrity of the scholarly record, we are therefore retracting the article. The corresponding author listed in this publication has been informed. The authors do not agree with the retraction.

We have been informed in our decision-making by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retractions.

The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as ‘Retracted’.

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Statement of Retraction