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Retraction Note to: SARS-CoV-2 infects T lymphocytes through its spike protein-mediated membrane fusion

Cellular & Molecular Immunology volume 17, page 894 (2020)Cite this article

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The Original Article was published on 07 April 2020

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Retraction to: Cellular & Molecular Immunology https://doi.org/10.1038/s41423-020-0424-9, published online 7 April 2020

The authors have retracted this article1. After the publication of this article, it came to the authors attention that in order to support the conclusions of the study, the authors should have used primary T cells instead of T-cell lines. In addition, there are concerns that the flow cytometry methodology applied here was flawed. These points resulted in the conclusions being considered invalid.

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  1. Wang, X., Xu, W., Hu, G. et al. SARS-CoV-2 infects T lymphocytes through its spike protein-mediated membrane fusion. Cell Mol. Immunol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41423-020-0424-9 (2020).

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  1. These authors contributed equally: Xinling Wang, Wei Xu, Gaowei Hu

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  1. Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology (MOE/NHC/CAMS), School of Basic Medical Sciences and Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

    Xinling Wang, Wei Xu, Gaowei Hu, Shuai Xia, Zhiping Sun, Zezhong Liu, Youhua Xie, Rong Zhang, Shibo Jiang & Lu Lu

  2. Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, NY, USA

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Wang, X., Xu, W., Hu, G. et al. Retraction Note to: SARS-CoV-2 infects T lymphocytes through its spike protein-mediated membrane fusion. Cell Mol Immunol 17, 894 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41423-020-0498-4

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