Retraction note: BMC Microbiol 18, 157 (2018)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-018-1304-7

The Editor has retracted this article because the authors could not provide evidence of approval from an appropriate ethics committee. Grégory Dubourg, Jean-Christophe Lagier, and Didier Raoult disagree with this retraction. The remaining authors did not respond to correspondence from the publisher about this retraction.