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First Online: 4 March 2016

Competing interests

: A.W. has received fees for speaking, consulting, serving on advisory boards and conducting clinical trials from Alexion, Bayer Healthcare, Biogen, Genzyme, Merck Serono, Novartis, Octapharma, Roche, Sanofi and Teva, with the approval of the Director of the University of Rostock Medical School. M.L. has received fees for speaking, consulting and conducting clinical trials from Abbvie, Astellas, GlaxoSmithKline, Gilead, Novartis Vaccines, Janssen and Roche, with the approval of the Director of the University of Rostock Medical School. E.C.R. has received speaker's honoraria, travel expense compensation and fees for conducting clinical trials from Activaero, Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis Vaccines, Roche Pharma, and Sanofi Pasteur MSD, with approval from the Rector of the University of Rostock. H.-P.H. has received fees for consulting, speaking and serving on steering committees from Biogen, GeNeuro, Genzyme, Merck Serono, Novartis, Octapharma, Receptos, Roche, Sanofi and Teva, with approval from the Rector of Heinrich Heine University. U.K.Z has received fees for speaking, consulting, serving on advisory boards and conducting clinical trials from Bayer Healthcare, Biogen, Merck Serono, Novartis, Sanofi and Teva, with the approval of the Director of the University of Rostock Medical School.