About the Authors

Kavitha Kothur

Affiliation Brain Autoimmunity group, Institute for Neuroscience and Muscle Research, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Louise Wienholt

Affiliation Department of Clinical Immunology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Shekeeb S. Mohammad

Affiliation Brain Autoimmunity group, Institute for Neuroscience and Muscle Research, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Esther M. Tantsis

Affiliation Brain Autoimmunity group, Institute for Neuroscience and Muscle Research, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Sekhar Pillai

Affiliation Brain Autoimmunity group, Institute for Neuroscience and Muscle Research, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Philip N. Britton

Affiliation Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, University of Sydney, and The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Cheryl A. Jones

Affiliation Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, University of Sydney, and The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Rajeshwar R. Angiti

Affiliation Department of Neonatology, Nepean Hospital, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Elizabeth H. Barnes

Affiliation NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Timothy Schlub

Affiliation Sydney School of Public Health, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Sushil Bandodkar

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Fabienne Brilot

Affiliation Brain Autoimmunity group, Institute for Neuroscience and Muscle Research, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Russell C. Dale

russell.dale@health.nsw.gov.au

Affiliation Brain Autoimmunity group, Institute for Neuroscience and Muscle Research, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KK RD LW. Formal analysis: KK RA EB TS RD. Funding acquisition: KK RD. Investigation: KK LW RD. Methodology: KK RD LW. Project administration: KK RD. Resources: SB SP ET SM CJ PB FB. Supervision: RD. Visualization: KK RA EB TS RD. Writing – original draft: KK RD. Writing – review & editing: KK LW SM ET SP PB CJ RA EB TS SB FB RD.