BioMed Central Page 1 of 1 (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Medical Case Reports Open Access Retraction Retraction: A novel observation of pubic osteomyelitis due to Streptococcus viridans after dental extraction: a case report Naseem Naqvi* 1 , Rizwana Naqvi 2 , Christopher Wong 3 and Sushmita Pearce 4 Address: 1 Department of Acute Medicine, Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary, UK, 2 Department of Medicine, Macclesfield District General Hospital, East Cheshire NHS Trust, UK, 3 Department of Renal Medicine, Aintree University Hospitals NHS Trust, Liverpool, UK and 4 Department of Medicine, Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, Wigan, UK Email: Naseem Naqvi* - naseemnaqvi@doctors.org.uk; Rizwana Naqvi - drriz00@yahoo.com; Christopher Wong - Christopher.Wong@aintree.nhs.uk; Sushmita Pearce - sushnita.pearce@wwl.nhs.uk * Corresponding author Retraction BioMed Central is publishing a retraction of this article [1] because the article was published in error. The case report contained erroneous details of the patient's presentation and not all original authors agreed to publish. SP had no involvement whatsoever with this article and was never consulted prior to its publication. BioMed Central apolo- gize to the readers for the error, and to the authors for any inconvenience caused. References 1. Naqvi N, Naqvi R, Wong C, Pearce S: A novel observation of pubic osteomyelitis due to Streptococcus viridans after dental extraction: a case report. Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008, 2:255. Published: 13 November 2009 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009, 3:122 doi:10.1186/1752-1947-3-122 Received: 27 October 2009 Accepted: 13 November 2009 This article is available from: http://www.jmedicalcasereports.com/content/3/1/122 © 2009 Naqvi et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. . viridans after dental extraction: a case report Naseem Naqvi* 1 , Rizwana Naqvi 2 , Christopher Wong 3 and Sushmita Pearce 4 Address: 1 Department of Acute Medicine, Dumfries & Galloway Royal. observation of pubic osteomyelitis due to Streptococcus viridans after dental extraction: a case report. Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008, 2:255. Published: 13 November 2009 Journal of Medical Case. Central Page 1 of 1 (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Medical Case Reports Open Access Retraction Retraction: A novel observation of pubic osteomyelitis due to Streptococcus viridans