© 2007 American Thoracic Society
Notice of Duplicate PublicationTo the Editor:
Upon close scrutiny of Figure 2 in the article by Webley and coworkers published in AJRCCM (1) and Figure 2 from the article by Cirino and coworkers published in BMC Infectious Diseases (2), we realized that the figure in BMC Infectious Diseases was a lower magnification of part of the same field as that used in the AJRCCM article. These figures both describe the growth of Chlamydia from clinical samples on the same tissue culture substrate (J774A.1 cells) and were in a single database of figures with different We believe that sometime during the compilation and annotation process, Figure 2 in the BMC Infectious Diseases article was incorrectly labeled as being generated from the normal donor project and was later used in that manuscript. In fact, this figure was taken from a culture coverslip that was infected with lysates from pediatric bronchial lavage samples. The AJRCCM figure was a 600x immunofluorescence image of a field on a coverslip, part of which can be seen in the lower magnification image (400x) in the BMC Infectious Diseases article. The authors will supply the editor of BMC Infectious Diseases with the appropriate representative culture image from normal donor infection of J774A.1 cells to replace the existing one. We deeply regret this error in image annotation and later image selection and hope that this will in no way detract from the important data contained in these two manuscripts.
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numeric designations. The experiments that led to the data for these two articles were generated around the same time and were compiled and stored in the same folder since pictures are taken in bulk at our microscopy facility where we pay a fee for the microscopy services.