Retraction to: World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology (2015) 31:675–679 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-015-1821-6

The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article [1] due to similarities between lanes 1–4 in Figures 1 and 2. These similarities have raised concerns about the reliability of the data presented.

The authors, Chinmay Biswas, Piyali Dey, B. S. Gotyal & Subrata Satpathy have not responded to correspondence about this retraction.