The antigenicity and cholesteroid nature of mycolic acids determined by recombinant chicken antibodies

• Heena Ranchod ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Heena Ranchod, Fortunate Ndlandla

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hranchod@csir.co.za

  Affiliations Polymers and Composites, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa, Department Biochemistry, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3311-4672

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• Fortunate Ndlandla ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Heena Ranchod, Fortunate Ndlandla

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Polymers and Composites, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa, Department Biochemistry, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Yolandy Lemmer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Polymers and Composites, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Mervyn Beukes,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department Biochemistry, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Johann Niebuhr,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department Biochemistry, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Juma Al-Dulayymi,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Chemistry, Bangor University, Wales, United Kingdom

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• Susan Wemmer,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Serology and Immunochemistry, Vaccines and Diagnostics Development Programme, Agricultural Research Council—Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Jeanni Fehrsen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Serology and Immunochemistry, Vaccines and Diagnostics Development Programme, Agricultural Research Council—Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Mark Baird,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Chemistry, Bangor University, Wales, United Kingdom

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• Jan Verschoor

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department Biochemistry, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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