About the Authors

Lara Harris

Contributed equally to this work with: Lara Harris, Julia Griem

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London (KCL), Camberwell, London, United Kingdom

Julia Griem

Contributed equally to this work with: Lara Harris, Julia Griem

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

julia.griem@kcl.ac.uk

Affiliation Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London (KCL), Camberwell, London, United Kingdom

Alison Gummery

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections and Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Laura Marsh

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London (KCL), Camberwell, London, United Kingdom

Sylviane Defres

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections and Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Tropical and Infectious Diseases Unit, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Maneesh Bhojak

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Kumar Das

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Ava Easton

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review o& editing

Affiliations Encephalitis Society, Malton, United Kingdom, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Tom Solomon

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ PI of ENCEPH-UK and this study.

Affiliations National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections and Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Michael Kopelman

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London (KCL), Camberwell, London, United Kingdom

on behalf of ENCEPH UK study group

Membership of the ENCEPH UK study group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.