About the Authors

Sylviane Defres

sdefres@liverpool.ac.uk

Affiliations Clinical Infection, microbiology and immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Tropical and Infectious diseases Unit, Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom, NIHR HPRU in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, University of Liverpool, Institute of infection and Global Health, Waterhouse Building, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Simon S. Keller

Affiliations The Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, The Department of Neuroradiology, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Kumar Das

Affiliation The Department of Neuroradiology, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Rishma Vidyasagar

Affiliations Florey Institute of Neuroscience and mental health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia, Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Laura M. Parkes

Affiliation Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Girvan Burnside

Affiliation The department of Biostatistics, Institute of translational medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Michael Griffiths

Affiliations Clinical Infection, microbiology and immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Michael Kopelman

Affiliation Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom

Neil Roberts

Affiliation Medical Physics and Imaging Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Tom Solomon

Affiliations Clinical Infection, microbiology and immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, NIHR HPRU in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, University of Liverpool, Institute of infection and Global Health, Waterhouse Building, Liverpool, United Kingdom, The Department of Neuroradiology, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

On behalf of ENCEPH UK study group

Membership of the ENCEPH-UK Study group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

Dr Simon S Keller is funded by a UK Medical Research Council grant, grant number MR/K023152/1 and Prof Tom Solomon is funded by the National Institute for Health Research by a Programme Grant for Applied Research with grant number RP-PG-108-10048. All other authors have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SD SSK LMP KD TS NR. Data curation: SD SSK RV. Formal analysis: SD SSK KD GB MG NR TS. Funding acquisition: TS. Investigation: SD SSK RV. Methodology: SD SSK LMP NR. Project administration: SD. Resources: SD SSK LMP RV. Software: SD SSK RV NR LMP. Supervision: SD SSK LMP KD NR TS. Validation: SD SSK LMP. Visualization: SD SSK LMP NR TS. Writing – original draft: SD SSK. Writing – review & editing: SD SSK LMP NR RV KD MK TS.