Intrathecal Anti-GalC Antibodies in Bickerstaff Brain Stem Encephalitis

Patrick M. Meyer Sauteur; Annette Hackenberg; Anne P. Tio-Gillen; Annemarie M. C. van Rossum; Christoph Berger; Bart C. Jacobs

doi:10.1055/s-0035-1566730

Neuropediatrics, Inhaltsverzeichnis

Neuropediatrics 2015; 46(06): 428-430
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1566730

Letter to the Editor

Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Intrathecal Anti-GalC Antibodies in Bickerstaff Brain Stem Encephalitis

Patrick M. Meyer Sauteur

¹Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC–Sophia Children's Hospital, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

²Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, and Children's Research Center (CRC), University Children's Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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Annette Hackenberg

³Division of Neurology, and Children's Research Center (CRC), University Children's Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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Anne P. Tio-Gillen

⁴Department of Neurology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

⁵Department of Immunology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Annemarie M. C. van Rossum

¹Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC–Sophia Children's Hospital, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Christoph Berger

²Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, and Children's Research Center (CRC), University Children's Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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Bart C. Jacobs

⁴Department of Neurology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

⁵Department of Immunology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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