Retraction

Retraction: Ajay Kumar, Sushmita Das, Abhishek Mandal, Sudha Verma, Kumar Abhishek, Ashish Kumar, Vinod Kumar, Ayan Kumar Ghosh, Pradeep Das (2018) Leishmania infection activates host mTOR for its survival by M2 macrophage polarization. Parasite Immunology 40(11): e12586; https://doi.org/10.1111/pim.12586

The above article, published online on 6 September 2018, in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editors-in-Chief, Eleanor M. Riley and Richard K. Grencis, and John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Following publication, concerns were raised by third parties regarding Figures 4b, 5b and 8b. The authors were unable to provide a satisfactory explanation and could not provide the original data.

The retraction has been agreed because of concerns that the figures were duplicated, affecting the interpretation of the data and results presented.