Antibody Responses to Mycoplasma pneumoniae: Role in Pathogenesis and Diagnosis of Encephalitis?

Patrick M. Meyer Sauteur; Bart C. Jacobs; Emiel B. M. Spuesens; Enno Jacobs; David Nadal; Cornelis Vink; Annemarie M. C. van Rossum

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003983

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Antibody Responses to Mycoplasma pneumoniae: Role in Pathogenesis and Diagnosis of Encephalitis?

Patrick M. Meyer Sauteur ,

* E-mail: p.meyersauteur@erasmusmc.nl

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Erasmus MC–Sophia Children's Hospital, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Laboratory of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC–Sophia Children's Hospital, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Children's Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Children's Research Center (CRC), University Children's Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Bart C. Jacobs,

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Immunology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Emiel B. M. Spuesens,

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Erasmus MC–Sophia Children's Hospital, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Laboratory of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC–Sophia Children's Hospital, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Enno Jacobs,

Affiliation TU Dresden, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Dresden, Germany
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David Nadal,

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Children's Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Children's Research Center (CRC), University Children's Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Cornelis Vink,

Affiliations Laboratory of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC–Sophia Children's Hospital, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Erasmus University College, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Annemarie M. C. van Rossum

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Erasmus MC–Sophia Children's Hospital, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Antibody Responses to Mycoplasma pneumoniae: Role in Pathogenesis and Diagnosis of Encephalitis?

Patrick M. Meyer Sauteur,
Bart C. Jacobs,
Emiel B. M. Spuesens,
Enno Jacobs,
David Nadal,
Cornelis Vink,
Annemarie M. C. van Rossum

Published: June 12, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003983

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