The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article. The article was submitted to be part of a guest-edited issue. An investigation by the publisher has found that the editorial handling and peer review process for this article was compromised. Based on the investigation’s findings the Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the results and conclusions of this article.

The authors M. R. Rahimpour, A. Hafizi and P. Heydari Boushehri do not agree to this retraction. The author R. Khalifeh has not responded to any correspondence from the Publisher about this retraction.

The online version of this article contains the full text of the retracted article as Supplementary Information.