Frontiers Editorial OfficeA Retraction of the Original Research Article
Tobacco smoking affects the salivary gram-positive bacterial population
by Grine, G., Royer, A., Terrer, E., Diallo, O. O., Drancourt, M., and Aboudharam, G. (2019). Front. Public Health 7:196. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00196
The journal retracts the 19 July 2019 article cited above.
Following publication, it was brought to our attention that the ethical approval for this study referred to the same ethics approval number 2016-011 that had been used across a series of unrelated published studies (1–45). It remains unclear whether appropriate ethics provisions, in line with Frontiers Policies and Publication Ethics policies were adhered to.
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Citation: Frontiers Editorial Office (2025) Retraction: Tobacco smoking affects the salivary gram-positive bacterial population. Front. Public Health 13:1654640. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1654640
Received: 26 June 2025; Accepted: 27 June 2025;
Published: 01 July 2025; Corrected: 07 July 2025.
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