About the Authors
- Hendrik Harms
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hendrik Harms, Konstantin Prass, Christian Meisel
Affiliation Department of Neurology, Charité Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Konstantin Prass
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hendrik Harms, Konstantin Prass, Christian Meisel
Affiliation Department of Neurology, Landesklinikum Waldviertel Horn, Horn, Austria
- Christian Meisel
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hendrik Harms, Konstantin Prass, Christian Meisel
Affiliation Institute of Medical Immunology, Charité Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Juliane Klehmet
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Charité Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Witold Rogge
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Christoph Drenckhahn
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Charité Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Jos Göhler
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Charité Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Stefan Bereswill
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Charité Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Ulf Göbel
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Charité Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Klaus Dieter Wernecke
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Affiliation Department of Biometrics and Clinical Epidemiology, Charité Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Tilo Wolf
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
- Guy Arnold
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Klinikum Sindelfingen-Böblingen, Sindelfingen, Germany
- Elke Halle
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Charité Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Hans-Dieter Volk
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Affiliation Institute of Medical Immunology, Charité Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Ulrich Dirnagl
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Charité Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Andreas Meisel
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* E-mail: andreas.meisel@charite.de
Affiliation Department of Neurology, Charité Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Competing Interests
HH, AM, KP, UD, EH, SB, and CM received speakers' honoraria from Bayer Vital GmbH. A patent application on anti-infective agents and immunmodulators used for preventive therapy following an acute cerebrovascular accident has been filed to the European Patent Office (PCT/EP03/02246); Patent owner: Charité Universitaetsmedizin Berlin; Patent inventors: AM, CM, KP, EH, UD.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: UD AM HH KP KW TW GA UG. Performed the experiments: SB AM HH KP CM JK WR CD EH. Analyzed the data: KW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SB EH. Wrote the paper: AM HH JG. Other: Added contributions: CM SB KW EH UD KP. Added comments: WR CD VG TW GA HV JK.