The PLOS One Editors retract this article [1,2] due to concerns about peer review integrity and potential manipulation of the publication process. These concerns call into question the validity of the reported results. We regret that the issues were not identified prior to the article’s publication.
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Citation: The PLOS One Editors (2025) Retraction: An immunoinformatics and extended molecular dynamics approach for designing a polyvalent vaccine against multiple strains of Human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV). PLoS One 20(5): e0324071. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0324071
Published: May 6, 2025
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