Jarius, Sven
Lechner, Christian
Wendel, Eva M.
Baumann, Matthias
Breu, Markus
Schimmel, Mareike
Karenfort, Michael
Marina, Adela Della
Merkenschlager, Andreas
Thiels, Charlotte
Blaschek, Astrid
Salandin, Michela
Leiz, Steffen
Leypoldt, Frank
Pschibul, Alexander
Hackenberg, Annette
Hahn, Andreas
Syrbe, Steffen
Strautmanis, Jurgis
Häusler, Martin
Krieg, Peter
Eisenkölbl, Astrid
Stoffels, Johannes
Eckenweiler, Matthias
Ayzenberg, Ilya
Haas, Jürgen
Höftberger, Romana
Kleiter, Ingo
Korporal-Kuhnke, Mirjam
Ringelstein, Marius
Ruprecht, Klemens
Siebert, Nadja
Schanda, Kathrin
Aktas, Orhan
Paul, Friedemann
Reindl, Markus
Wildemann, Brigitte
Rostásy, Kevin
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Funding for this research was provided by:
Dietmar Hopp Stiftung (N/A)
Merck Serono Germany (N/A)
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (N/A, N/A, N/A)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (N/A)
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (01GM1908A)
ERA-net (LE3064/2-1)
Jubilaeumsfonds of the Austrian National Bank (14158 and 15918)
Article History
Received: 7 November 2019
Accepted: 23 April 2020
First Online: 3 September 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the local review boards of the participating centers. The patients’ parents/caregivers gave written informed consent.
: Not applicable.
: S.J. was indirectly supported by research grants from the Dietmar Hopp Stiftung and from Merck Serono to the Department of Neurology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany (to B.W.). C.L. reports no conflicts of interest. E.W. reports no conflicts of interest. M.Ba. reports no conflicts of interest. M.Br. reports no conflicts of interest. M.S. reports no conflicts of interest. M.K. reports no conflicts of interest. A.DM. reports no conflicts of interest. A.M. reports no conflicts of interest. C.T. reports no conflicts of interest. A.B. has received travel grands and speakers honoraria from Merck Serono, Genzyme, Sanofi and has served on scientific advisory boards for Novartis. M.S. reports no conflicts of interest. S.L. reports no conflicts of interest. F.L. reports speakers honoraria from Grifols, Teva, Biogen, Bayer, Roche, Novartis, Fresenius, travel funding from Merck, Grifols, and Bayer and serving on advisory boards for Roche, Biogen and Alexion. A.P. reports no conflicts of interest. A.H. reports no conflicts of interest. C.K. reports no conflicts of interest. A.H. reports no conflicts of interest. S.S. reports no conflicts of interest. J.S. reports no conflicts of interest. M.H. reports no conflicts of interest. P.K. reports no conflicts of interest. A.E. reports no conflicts of interest. J.S. reports no conflicts of interest. M.E. reports no conflicts of interest. I.A. has received travel grants from Biogen Idec and the Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation, has served on scientific advisory boards for Roche and Alexion and has received research support from Chugai Pharma. J.H. reports no conflicts of interest. I.K. has received travel funding and/or speaker honoraria from Biogen, Merck, Mylan, Novartis, Sanofi, Roche, has consulted for Alexion, Bayer, Chugai, Roche, Shire, has received research support from Chugai and Diamed, and is Associate Editor of BMC Neurology. M.K.K. reports no conflicts of interest. M.Ri. has received speaker honoraria from Novartis, Bayer Vital GmbH and Ipsen, has served on scientific advisory boards for Roche, and received travel reimbursement from Bayer Schering, Biogen Idec, Merz, Genzyme, Teva, Merck and the Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation, none related to this study. P.S.R. reports speaker honoraria from Abbvie, Daiichi-Sankyo, Merck, Roche, Biogen, Novartis, Shire; he reports consultancy honoraria from Roche, Merck, Teva, Sandoz/Hexal; and research grants from Biogen, Merck, Roche; none of them resultant in a conflict of interest with regards to the submitted work. K.Ru. has received research support from Novartis, Merck Serono, and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research; speaker honoraria and travel grants from Bayer, Biogen Idec, Merck Serono, Sanofi-Aventis/Genzyme, Teva, Roche, Novartis, and the Guthy Jackson Charitable Foundation. N.S. has received travel funding from Sanofi-Aventis/Genzyme. O.A. has received grants from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the ‘German Competence Network Multiple Sclerosis’ (KKNMS; FKZ 01GI1602B); grants from Biogen, Merck Serono, Novartis, Sanofi and Teva; personal fees from Biogen, Merck Serono, Novartis, Sanofi, Roche, and Teva. F.P. has received honoraria and research support from Alexion, Bayer, Biogen, Chugai, MerckSerono, Novartis, Genzyme, MedImmune, Shire, Teva, and serves on scientific advisory boards for Alexion, MedImmune and Novartis; he has received funding from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG Exc 257), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Competence Network Multiple Sclerosis), the Guthy Jackson Charitable Foundation, the EU Framework Program 7, and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society of the USA. M.R. was supported by research grants from the Austrian Science Funds (FWF), Austrian Science Promotion Agency (FFG) and the Austrian Multiple Sclerosis Research Society. The University Hospital and Medical University of Innsbruck (Austria; M.R. and K.Sch.) receives payments for antibody assays (MOG, AQP4, and other autoantibodies) and for MOG and AQP4 antibody validation experiments organized by Euroimmun (Lübeck, Germany). B.W. has received research grants and/or honoraria from Merck Serono, Biogen, Teva, Novartis, Sanofi Genzyme, and Bayer Healthcare, and research grants from the Dietmar Hopp Foundation, the Klaus Tschira Foundation, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF; FKZ 01GI1602A), and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). K.R. has no conflict of interest related to this project.