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Authors
Jungbäck, Nicola
Grochowski, Przemyslaw
Hieber, Daniel
Dinser, Moritz
Mielewczyk, Zuzanna
Pfefferkorn, Thomas
Muntau, Birgit
Richter, Thomas
Rieder, Georg
Bayas, Antonios
Hirschbühl, Klaus
Märkl, Bruno
Adam, Patrick
Tappe, Dennis
Liesche-Starnecker, Friederike
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universität Ulm
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Article History
Received: 9 March 2026
Accepted: 1 May 2026
First Online: 14 May 2026
Declarations
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: This study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Ethical approval was granted by the ethics committee of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, responsible for Augsburg University Hospital (approval no. 23—0267). The study used pseudonymised data and materials. Therefore, informed consent to participate was not required. Informed consent for autopsy was obtained from legal guardians.
: All data are fully anonymised, and no identifying information is included. Therefore, consent for publication was not required.
: FLS receives funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (504757758), support from the Bavarian State Ministry of Health, Care, and Prevention (Zoonotic Bornavirus Focalpoint Bavaria [ZooBoFo]), and has received honorarium for a scientific presentation on bornavirus encephalitis at Ingolstadt Hospital (Ingolstadt, Germany). FLS and PA were supported by the Kurscheid-Hühnlein-Stiftung. None of the funding bodies were involved in either the design of the study, nor the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data.
