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Journal of Immunology Research
Volume 2016, Article ID 7515687, 9 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7515687
Review Article

Defensins: The Case for Their Use against Mycobacterial Infections

Haodi Dong,1 Yue Lv,1 Deming Zhao,1 Paul Barrow,2 and Xiangmei Zhou1

1National Animal Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Animal Epidemiology and Zoonosis of Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine and State Key Lab of Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
2School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, Loughborough, Leicestershire Le12SRD, UK

Received 4 July 2016; Accepted 30 August 2016

Academic Editor: Margarete D. Bagatini

Copyright © 2016 Haodi Dong 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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