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Errors in published articles

Authors who discover an error in their published article must contact the journal as soon as possible using the contact details listed on the journal’s home page.

Article withdrawal

Submitted manuscripts can be withdrawn by the authors before final acceptance of the manuscript for publication (i.e. before it is published on line with formal identifiers (e.g. DOI number, volume and page number)). Authors should submit an email to the Editors to request the withdrawal providing reasons for their decision to withdraw.

Articles that have been accepted for publication but not yet published in their final form may be withdrawn prior to final publication, where:

- They are found to contain errors.

- They may have breached journal publishing policies in the view of the editor, e.g., multiple submissions, false claims of authorship, plagiarism, etc.

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AJTCCM News

Accreditation

The African Journal of Thoracic and Critical Care Medicine is now SA DoHET-accredited, Scopus-indexed and indexed with NCBI databases including PubMed Central.

Editorial board

Editor-in-chief

Prof K Dheda, MB BCh (Wits), FCP(SA), FCCP, PhD (Lond), FRCP (Lond). Head Department the Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Professor of Mycobacteriology and Global Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom; Director, Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity, University of Cape Town Lung Institute, South Africa.

Deputy Editor

Prof C Koegelenberg, MB ChB, MMed (Int), FCP (SA), MRCP (UK), Cert Pulm (SA), PhD. Senior Specialist: Pulmonology & General Medicine, University of Stellenbosch & Tygerberg Academic Hospital, South Africa.

Section Editor: Breath-taking News

Prof E M Irusen, MB ChB, FCP(SA), PhD. Head: Division of Pulmonology Department of Medicine Faculty of Health Sciences University of Stellenbosch & Tygerberg Academic Hospital, South Africa.

President SA Thoracic Society

Prof R van Zyl Smit, MB ChB, MRCP(UK), Dip HIV(Man), MMED, FCP, Cert Pulm (SA), PhD, ATSF. Division of Pulmonology and Department of Medicine; University of Cape Town Head Lung Clinical Research Unit University of Cape Town Lung Institute, South Africa.