About the Authors
- Michael Osthoff
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Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Osthoff, Mira Katan
* E-mail: mosthoff@uhbs.ch
Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Immunology, Department of Biomedicine and Clinic for Internal Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Mira Katan
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Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Osthoff, Mira Katan
Affiliations Department of Endocrinology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Felix Fluri
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Philipp Schuetz
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Affiliation Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Roland Bingisser
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Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Ludwig Kappos
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Andreas J. Steck
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Stefan T. Engelter
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Beat Mueller
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Affiliation Medical University Clinic, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland
- Mirjam Christ-Crain
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Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Marten Trendelenburg
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Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Immunology, Department of Biomedicine and Clinic for Internal Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Competing Interests
Drs. Osthoff, Fluri, Bingisser, Steck, Engelter, and Mueller report no disclosures. Dr. Schuetz received support from Brahms and BioMerieux for speaking engagements. Dr. Kappos has received payments from several companies regarding his research within the field of multiple sclerosis research unrelated to this trial. Dr. Christ-Crain received speaking honoraria from Brahms. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MO MK MT. Performed the experiments: MO. Analyzed the data: MO MK PS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FF RB LK AJS STE BM MC-C. Wrote the paper: MO MK. Critically revised the article for important intellectual content: FF RB LK AJS STE BM MCC MT.