Expression of Concern on “Modes of Antiviral Action of Chemical Portions and Constituents from Woad Root Extract against Influenza Virus A FM1”

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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine would like to express our concern with the article titled “Modes of Antiviral Action of Chemical Portions and Constituents from Woad Root Extract against Influenza Virus A FM1” published in Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine in January 2016 [1].

The article presents the same results as another article, titled “Antiviral activities against influenza virus (FM1) of bioactive fractions and representative compounds extracted from Banlangen (Radix Isatidis)” and published in the Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine in June 2016 by different authors [2].

The Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine article was accepted in August 2015, before the Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine article was submitted in November 2015.