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Clinical and Developmental Immunology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 738043, 8 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/738043
Research Article

Identification of RD5-Encoded Mycobacterium tuberculosis Proteins As B-Cell Antigens Used for Serodiagnosis of Tuberculosis

Miao-Miao Zhang,1,2 Jun-Wei Zhao,1 Zhan-Qiang Sun,3 Jun Liu,4 Xiao-Kui Guo,1 Wen-Di Liu,2,5 and Shu-Lin Zhang1,5

1Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China
2Department of Immunology, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang 453000, China
3Shanghai Kaidi Biotech Co., Ltd., Shanghai 200433, China
4Wuxi No. 5 People’s Hospital, Wuxi 214005, China
5Department of Biochemistry, Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450008, China

Received 31 December 2011; Accepted 1 April 2012

Academic Editor: Mario Clerici

Copyright © 2012 Miao-Miao Zhang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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