About the Authors

Michael Osthoff

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Osthoff, Mira Katan

mosthoff@uhbs.ch

Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Immunology, Department of Biomedicine and Clinic for Internal Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Mira Katan

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

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Philipp Schuetz

Affiliation Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Roland Bingisser

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Ludwig Kappos

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Andreas J. Steck

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Stefan T. Engelter

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Beat Mueller

Affiliation Medical University Clinic, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland

Mirjam Christ-Crain

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Marten Trendelenburg

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.