Antibody Responses to Mycoplasma pneumoniae: Role in Pathogenesis and Diagnosis of Encephalitis?
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1 Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Erasmus MC–Sophia Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2 Laboratory of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC–Sophia Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 3 Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Children’s Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 4 Children’s Research Center (CRC), University Children’s Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 5 Department of Neurology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 6 Department of Immunology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 7 TU Dresden, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Dresden, Germany, 8 Erasmus University College, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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